by Drew Ellenwood | May 28, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
Seeing that monster movies fall within the purview of fantasy and science fiction, I give you a short thinker-blog for consideration. You go to Godzilla ready to cheer on humanity, but often times there’s more than one monster and the monsters fight each other. A...
by Drew Ellenwood | May 21, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy & Theology, Path to Publishing
Hold a book in your hand. Where did it come from? The publisher, of course. The publisher probably got it from a literary agent. The agent represented an author. The author had a story to tell. But where did the story come from? Stories start as a spark of an...
by Drew Ellenwood | May 7, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
This blog is from my son-in-law Matt Wright, a bona fide linguist. He’s also a fantasy/science fiction fan. But who isn’t? Languages are rich treasures for us fantasy and science fiction geeks. This is where alien cultures get good; this is where another world...
by Drew Ellenwood | Apr 23, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
This week I’ve invited my daughter Lucy Wright to take a swing for us in the fantasy and science fiction world. Lucy revisits the topic of the pill to swallow in fantasy and science fiction. In our first installment on this subject, I sited some examples where the...
by Drew Ellenwood | Mar 26, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
A fantasy or science fiction author chucks out one or more real physical laws in order to construct an imaginative world where magic and dragons coexist, where starships can exceed the speed of light, where heroes still look good even with blue skin. But there’s...
by Drew Ellenwood | Mar 5, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
I’d like to give you another short thinker-blog. Have you ever wondered if the Justice League, such a stalwart defender of America, is really committed to the ideals of democracy? Since they have superpowers, doesn’t that set them above the populace? Having such...