“We need more science fiction,” writes Paul Chiariello for The NewHumanism.org in a post called Science Fiction vs. The Bible. As a Christian author who happens to be a rabid sci-fi fan, I couldn’t agree more with that statement. At face value anyway. I could not disagree more with his insistence that this necessarily requires an abandonment [...]
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Evolutionary Fictions: On Plot Holes, Deus ex Machina and Other Crimes Against Fiction
Posted: May 18, 2012 in Johnny Came Home, The Writing ProcessTags: Evolution, Christian Fiction, Johnny Came Home, Rev Tony Breeden, Science Fiction, plot holes, deus ex machina
Johnny Came Home is my upcoming superhero sci-fi novel set in the town of Midwich, West Virginia. Noting that microbes-to-man evolution is the the preferred explanation for comic book super powers these days, I basically set out to see if superheroes could be explained from a Biblical creationist POV. God willing, I’m finally gonna release [...]
Fighting the Future – Prophecy in a Sci-Fi Universe
Posted: August 8, 2011 in Johnny Came Home, The Writing Process, UncategorizedTags: Apologetic Fiction, Christian Fiction, Comic, Creationism, Johnny Came Home, Rev Tony Breeden, Science Fiction, Superhero
In Johnny Came Home, I explore the concept of super heroes [and villains] from a Biblical Creationist point of view. In that soon-to-be-published novel, John Lazarus must fight for the future of Midwich and possibly the world as we know it. The premise of the book is that the generally unrealized pre-Flood potential of humanity [...]
Thoughts on NaNoWriMo – Is National Novel Writing Month Worth the Effort?
Posted: November 4, 2010 in Johnny Came Home, The Writing ProcessTags: Christian Fiction, Johnny Came Home, Mike Duran, NaNoWriMo, Otherworld, Rev Tony Breeden, Science Fiction, Superhero
Some of you know that Johnny Came Home was born of NaNoWriMo. Some of you don’t. Some of you don’t even know what NaNoWriMo is! NaNoWriMo is shorthand for National Novel Writer’s Month. It takes place every November. The idea was founded in roughly 1999, but really took off in 2001. The goal is to [...]
Little Green Men & the Biblical Creationist Author
Posted: June 23, 2010 in Johnny Came Home, The Writing ProcessTags: Aliens, Apologetic Fiction, Christian Fiction, Comic, Creationism, Evolution, Extraterrestrials, Johnny Came Home, Science Fiction, Superhero, UFOs
The concept cover for the book I’m writing, Johnny Came Home, has a silver screen flying saucer on it. The saucer has just crash landed and skidded to a stop at the front steps of the local church, Soul’s Harbor. That’ll preach, I guarantee you. It got me thinking about extraterrestrials. Aliens. Little green [or [...]
Dirty Deeds & the Christian Author
Posted: June 8, 2010 in Johnny Came Home, The Writing ProcessTags: Christian Fiction, Comic, Creationism, Evolution, Johnny Came Home, Profanity, Rev Tony Breeden, Science Fiction, Superhero
I’m sure much has already been said on this matter somewhere on the blogosphere, but I got to thinking about it today: My characters are generally bad people. The whole stinkin’ lot of them simply reek of original sin. They’re perfectly awful which is only perfectly natural given the general state of humanity. Even us Christians [...]
