Monday, September 26, 2011

Christian Writers of Speculative Fiction

Religious Ideas in Sci-Fi
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Christian Authors of Speculative Fiction


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Christian Authors of Speculative Fiction

The Masters (The Inklings)
Heavens War by Micah Harris and Michael Gaydos

Charles Williams (1886 - 1945)
Aspects of Power
1. War in Heaven (1930)
2. Many Dimensions (1931)
3. The Place of the Lion (1931)
4. The Greater Trumps (1932)
5. Shadows of Ecstasy (1933)
6. Descent into Hell (1937)
7. All Hallows' Eve (1945)

J. R. R. Tolkien – (1892 - 1973)
He worked on a translation of the Book of Job in the Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and saw The Lord of the Rings as deeply informed by his Catholicism. (Books listed in Popular Authors Fantasy)

Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again (1937)

1. The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
2. The Two Towers (1954)
3. The Return of the King (1955)

The Silmarillion (1977)

The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996)
History of Middle-Earth
1. The Book of Lost Tales (1983)
2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (1984)
3. The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
4. The Shaping of Middle-Earth (1987)
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)

The History of The Lord of the Rings
1. The Return of the Shadow (1988)
2. The Treason of Isengard (1989)
3. The War of the Ring (1990)
4. Sauron Defeated (1992)

Later Silmarillion
1. Morgoth's Ring: The Legends of Aman (1993)
2. The War of the Jewels: The Legends of Beleriand (1994)

The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)

Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
The History of The Hobbit (2007)

OTHER TOLKEIN BOOKS
The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
Mr. Bliss (1982)
Oliphaunt (1989)
Tales from the Perilous Realm (1993)
The Children of Hurin (2007)
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun (2009)


C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

Space Trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
That Hideous Strength (1945)

The Screwtape Letters (1942)
The Great Divorce (1945)

The Chronicles of Narnia (50-56)

Till We Have Faces (1956)
Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
The Dark Tower (1977)
Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)

Classic Christian Writers of Mainstream Speculative Fiction
Listed by year of Birth

Murray Leinster June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975 ( Dean of Science Fiction) Guttenburg 
First story, "The Foreigner" (1916)
First Science-Fiction Story The Runaway Skyscraper (1919)
found in Wondrous Beginnings, (Jan 2003) and FREE ONLINE

Best of Murray Leinster (1976)
First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster (1995)

R. A. Lafferty (1914 - 2002)   Guttenburg  
By all accounts a devout and conservative Catholic
First Story The Wagons (1959) found in The Early Lafferty, (Mar 1988)

Past Master (1968)
Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)
Strange Doings (1972)
Fourth Mansions (1969)
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?:
Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (1974)
Lafferty In Orbit (1991)
Not to Mention Camels (1972)


Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) Guttenburg 
First Story Rebirth (1952) Imagination, March 1952, (Mar 1952)

Dark Universe (1961)
Lords of the Psychon (1963)
The Last Leap: And Other Stories of the Super-Mind (1964)Counterfeit World (1964) aka Simulacron-3
The Lost Perception (1966) aka A Scourge of Screamers
Project Barrier (1968)
The Infinite Man (1973)
Walter M. Miller – (1922 - 1996) Convert, then ex-Catholic, noted for A Canticle for Leibowitz and their Catholic themed works.Guttenburg 
First Published Story Secret of the Death Dome (1951) Amazing Stories, January 1951
Saint Leibowitz
1. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
2. Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997) (with Terry Bisson)

The Best of Walter M. Miller Jr (1980)
The science fiction stories of Walter M. Miller, Jr. / With a new introd. by David Samuelson.

William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) HORROR  LIFE TIME AWARD
 Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959)
John Goldfarb, Please Come (1963)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (1966)

 

Exorcist
1. The Exorcist (1971)
2. Legion (1983)
Exorcist and Legion, The Screenplays (1998)
Exorcist and Legion (omnibus) (2010)

The Ninth Configuration (1978)
Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable (1996)
Dimiter (2010)
Crazy (2010)
The Redemption (2011)

Plays
The Exorcist: Screenplay (2000)

Novellas
Elsewhere (2008)

Fred Saberhagen (1930 - 2007) freesfonline.de 
First Story Volume PAA-PYX (1961)
 found in Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires: A Saberhagen Retrospective, (Jun 2009)

After the Fact (1988)
Seance for a Vampire: Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1994)
Dancing Bears (1995) Merlin's Bones (1995)
The Book of Saberhagen (1975)
The Saberhagen: My Best (1987)
Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires: A Saberhagen Retrospective (2009)

Julian Clare May (born July 10, 1931, First Story Dune Roller (1951) found in Great Tales of Science Fiction, (1985)

There's Adventure in Rockets (Popular Mechanics Press, 1958)
There's Adventure in Electronics (Popular Mechanics Press, 1957)
There's Adventure in Chemistry (1957)
There's Adventure in Atomic Energy (1957)
Land Beneath the Sea (1972)

Pliocene Exiles
1. The Many-Coloured Land (1981)
2. The Golden Torc (1981)
3. The Nonborn King (1983)4. The Adversary (1984)

Intervention
1. The Surveillance (1988)
2. Metaconcert (1988)
3. Intervention (1987)
Galactic Milieu
1. Jack the Bodiless (1991)
2. Diamond Mask (1994)
3. Magnificat (1996)


Rampart World

1. Perseus Spur (1998)
2. Orion Arm (1999)
3. The Sagittarius Whorl (2001)

Boreal Moon
1. Conqueror's Moon (2003)2. Ironcrown Moon (2004)
3. Sorcerer's Moon (2006)

Gene Wolfe (1931 - ) freesfonline.de 
Convert, a recent story of his in Asimov's concerned a Catholic holy cardFirst published story The Case of the Vanishing Ghost (1951) found in Young Wolfe, (Dec 1992)

The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)

Operation Ares (1970)
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
Peace (1975)
The Devil in a Forest (1976)
Free Live Free (1984)
There Are Doors (1988)
Castleview (1990)
Pandora by Holly Hollander (1990)
Pirate Freedom (2007)An Evil Guest (2008)
The Sorcerer's House (2010)
Home Fires (2011) Series

Urth : Book of the New Sun
1. The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)
2. The Claw of the Conciliator (1980)
3. The Sword of the Lictor (1981)
4. The Citadel of the Autarch (1982)
5. The Urth of the New Sun (1987)
Shadow and Claw (omnibus) (1994)
Sword and Citadel (omnibus) (1994)
The Book of the New Sun (omnibus) (2000)Severian of the Guild (omnibus) (2007)

Soldier of the Mist
1. The Soldier of the Mist (1986)
2. The Soldier of Arete (1989)
3. Soldier of Sidon (2006)
Latro in the Mist (omnibus) (2003)Urth : Book of the Long Sun
1. Nightside the Long Sun (1993)
2. Lake of the Long Sun (1993)
3. Calde of the Long Sun (1994)
4. Exodus from the Long Sun (1996)
Litany of the Long Sun (omnibus) (1994)
Epiphany of the Long Sun (omnibus) (1997)
Urth : Book of the Short Sun
1. On Blue's Waters (1999)
2. In Green's Jungles (2000)
3. Return to the Whorl (2001)


Wizard Knight

1. The Knight (2004)
2. The Wizard (2004)
The Wizard Knight (2005)

Jerry Pournelle freesfonline.de


Sandra Miesel November 25, 1941
Dreamrider (1982) Shaman (1989)

Against Time's Arrow: The High Crusade of Poul Anderson (1978)

John Joseph Myers (born July 26, 1941
Space Vulture (2008) with Gary K Wolf
Michael Flynn (1947 - ) freesfonline.de 
First Story  The Quality Throop (1984) found in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1984,
(Not Sure if He is a Christian but Catholic Writer Mark Shea Really Likes Him)

Firestar
1. Firestar (1996)
2. Rogue Star (1998)
3. Lodestar (2000)4. Falling Stars (2001)
5. Wreck of the River of Stars (2003)

January Dancer
1. The January Dancer (2008)
2. Up Jim River (2010)
3. In the Lion's Mouth (2012)
Novels
In the Country of the Blind (1990)
Fallen Angels (1991) (with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
Eifelheim (2006)

Collections
The Forest of Time: And Other Stories (1990)
Melodies of the Heart - Hugo Nominated Novella (2011)
The Iron Shirts (2011)


Tim Powers – (1952 - ) Self avowed in interviews.

Last Call
Last Call (1992)
Expiration Date (1995)
Earthquake Weather (1997)

Novels
Epitaph in Rust (1976)
The Skies Discrowned (1976) aka Forsake the SkyThe Drawing of the Dark (1979)
The Anubis Gates (1983)
Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)
On Stranger Tides (1987)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
Declare (2000)
Three Days to Never (2006)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

Collections
Night Moves: And Other Stories (2000)
The Devils in the Details (2003) (with James P Blaylock)
Strange Itineraries (2004)The Bible Repairman (2006)

Louise Marley freesfonline.de
Receive the Gift; Sing the Light; Sing the Warmth

Patricia C Wrede
born March 27, 1953)


The Seven Towers (1984) Kingdom Magical Intrigue
Book of Enchantments (1996) A collection of stories

Alternate Historical Fantasy

Regency Magic
Cecelia and Kate (with Caroline Stevermer)
1. Sorcery and Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (1988)
2. The Grand Tour (2004)
3. The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After (2006)
Magicians of Quality (omnibus) (2005)

Regency Magic
Mairelon
1. Mairelon the Magician (1991)
2. Magician's Ward (1997)

Frontier Magic
1. Thirteenth Child (2009)
2. Across the Great Barrier (2011)
3. The Far West (2012)





John C. Wright (1961 - ) freesfonline.de 
First Published Not Born a Man (1994)
Found in No Longer Dreams: An Anthology of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, (2005)

Golden Age
1. The Golden Age: A Romance of the Far Future (2001)
2. The Phoenix Exultant: or, Dispossessed in Utopia (2003)
3. The Golden Transcendence (2003)
Everness
1. The Last Guardian of Everness (2004)2. Mists of Everness (2005)

Chronicles of Chaos
1. Orphans of Chaos (2005)
2. Fugitives of Chaos (2006)
3. Titans of Chaos (2007)

Count to a Trillion
1. Count to a Trillion (2011)
2. The Hermetic Millennia (2012)
Novels
Null-A Continuum (2008)

Looking For The King An Inklings Dr. David C. Downing 2010
Toward the Gleam T.M. Doran 2011
An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam Peter Kreeft (2011)
The Christus Experiment by Rod Bennett (2012)

Other Christians of Speculative Fiction
(listed Alphabetically)



Jo Clayton (February 15, 1939 – February 13, 1998)
First Story A Bait of Dreams (1979) found in A Bait of Dreams, (Feb 1985)



Ted Dekker
Martyr's Song
Heaven's Wager (2000)
When Heaven Weeps (2001)
Thunder of Heaven (2002)

Looking For The King An Inklings (2010)
Dr. David C. Downing

Toward the Gleam  (2011) T.M. Doran

Regina Doman
Fairy Tale Retold
Snow White and Rose Red (1997)
The Shadow of the Bear (2002)
Black As Night (2004)
Waking Rose (2007)
The Midnight Dancers (2008)


Novels

Alex O'Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves (2010)
Catholic Philosopher Chick Makes Her Debut (2012) (with Rebecca Bratten Weiss)

Roger Elmwood
Angelwalk:
Angelwalk (1988)
Fallen Angel (1990)
Stedfast Guardian Angel (1992)

Darien: Guardian Angel of Jesus (1994)
Darien's Angelwalk for Children (1995)
Angels in Atlantic City (1998)
Wendy's Phoenix (1999)Where Angels Dare (1999)
On Holy Ground (2001)

Dale Estey
A Lost Tale by Dale Estey(Aug 1980)
The Elephant Talks to God by (Oct 5, 2006)

Karina and Robert Fabian edited
Inifinite Space, Infinite God
Infinite Space, Infinite God II

The Pleistocene Redemption by Dan Gallagher, Ed Stackler and Gene King(Oct 15, 1998)

The Landing Place by Fr. Serafim Gascoigne

Russell Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994)
First Published Story Behind the Stumps (1950)
Found in Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology Of Ghostly Tales, (Sep 2004)

Phillip Ellis Jackson

Steven Lawhead
Dream Thief (1983)

The Pendragon Cycle:
Taliesin (1987)
Merlin (1988)
Arthur (1989)
Pendragon (1994)
Grail (1997)
Bill Myers
Soul Tracker
Soul Tracker (2004)
The Presence (2005)
Seeing (2007)

Michael D. O'Brien – (1948 - ) Canadian Catholic
Children of the Last Days
Father Elijah (1996)
Strangers and Sojourners (1997)
Eclipse of the Sun (1998)
Plague Journal (1999)
A Cry of Stone (2003)Sophia House (2005)

Novels
The Island of the World (2007)
Theophilos (2010)
The Father's Tale (2011)
Picture Books
The Small Angel (1993)




Matthew Lickona's graphic novel, "Alphonse

Angel Fire by Mary Marshall

Frank Peretti
This Present Darkness
This Present Darkness (1986)
Piercing the Darkness (1989)
Tilly (1988)
Prophet (1992)The Oath (1995)
The Visitation (1999)
Monster (2005)
House (2006) (with Ted Dekker)
Illusion (2012)

Christopher Stasheff
James Stevens-Arce
J. Patrick Sutton
Mark E. Rogers (born 1952)
First Story The Bridge of Catzad-Dûm (1980) found in

Samurai Cat
1. Adventures of Samurai Cat (1986)
2. More Adventures of Samurai Cat (1989)
4. Samurai Cat in the Real World (1989)5. Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies (1994)
6. Samurai Cat Goes to Hell (1998)
The Sword of Samurai Cat (1991)
Zorachus
1. Zorachus (1986)
2. The Nightmare of God (1988)

The Dead (1989) Blood of the Lamb
1. The Expected One (1991)
2. The Devouring Void (1991)
3. The Riddled Man (1992)

Zancharthus
1. Blood and Pearls (1998)
2. Jagutai and Lilitu (2000)
3. Night of the Long Knives (2002)
Old House of Fear (1961)
Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales (2004)

The Dead  (2000)

Mary Doria Russell
Sparrow
. The Sparrow (1996)
2. Children of God (1998)

A Thread of Grace (2005)Dreamers of the Day (2008)
Doc (2011)

T. J. Smith
A World Away: The Quest of Dan Clay: Book One
The Harrowing Escape: The Quest of Dan Clay: Book Two



My Visit to Hell by Paul Thigpen

Chris Walley
Lamb Among the Stars
1. The Shadow At Evening (2002)
2. The Power of the Night (2003)
3. The Dark Foundations (2006)
4. The Infinite Day (2008)
The Shadow and Night (omnibus) (2006)

Novels
Heart of Stone (1989) (writing as John Haworth)
Rock of Refuge (1990) (writing as John Haworth)

Bernard Palmer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Palmer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ideas_in_science_fiction

Sideshow (1987) W R Thompson

Kathy Tyers
Firebird
1. Firebird (1987)
2. Fusion Fire (1988)
3. Crown of Fire (2000)

Novels
Crystal Witness (1989)
Shivering World (1991)
One Mind's Eye (1996)

Robina Williams
Quantum Cat series.
Jerome and the Seraph
Angelos,
Gaea

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