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A Classic Christmas Fantasy… By Dickens!

Time travel, ghosts, entities from another dimension. Now that’s great fantasy. But you mostly don’t think of Charles Dickens. More’s the pity. Fantasy A Christmas Carol is classic literature… and classic fantasy.  The novel has what fantasy needs:  Memorable characters going through extraordinary circumstances while facing daunting odds but eventually coming out victorious. In this […]

Christmas Carol
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The Fantasy World of Narnia

Let’s talk about fantasy worlds from various sources.  I’m going to start, of course, with C.S. Lewis’s Narnia, a world simple enough for children and complex enough for adults. Magic Magic infuses Narnia from the beginning when Aslan sang it into being.  But for the reader magic starts from the time Lucy hides in an […]

Narnia
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Fantasy Theology: Would a Fantasy World Need a Jesus? Or… 4 Theological States of Inhabitable Planets

I wonder about the question of universal redemption from evil.  It’s the question that started me writing my science fantasy Curious Origins of a Restless World.  Here’s my thoughts on the purely theoretical question of fantasy theology… Or is it theoretical? 1.  Non-Sentient Let’s first consider a planet with life but no life that has […]

Fantasy Theology
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