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Nightland Racer

Nightland Racer is Fenton Wood’s completely gonzo fable about a down on his luck former bootlegger who drives a nuclear-powered truck into the future to battle a malevolent black hole. The past, the present, and the future meet in a world where myths are truer than truth, and the

Can Christians Play Dungeons and Dragons?

Aaron Irber asked me to write a blog post about the Satanic Panic and Dungeons and Dragons. This is an interesting topic, and one that only got moreso as I delved into it. Even now, almost forty years later, I think there is residual reluctance amongst creedal Christians to accept

Lead the Way: Forgotten Ruin Book 6

Lead the Way is the sixth book in the Forgotten Ruin series, and it hits all the right notes that make this series my current favorite. I was tempted to say this might be the best entry in the series yet, but it is really hard to top the wild

A Theology of Fiction

In this month’s First Things magazine is the article “A Theology of Fiction“ by Cassandra Nelson. I feel like wading in, as this subject overlaps with my interests, and I also have a soft spot for First Things, even though I am no longer a subscriber. I am fascinated

Shot in the Dark

This would be a great cover for a weird western.

Follow-up on a capsule history of English scifi and fantasy

I was looking around my own blog to see if I had ever written anything on Verne while I was prepping my review of Eighty Days Around the World, and I stumbled on this: A Capsule History of English SciFi and Fantasy I wrote that post in November of 2010,

Pulp Rock Book Review

When I got a request from Alexander Hellene to review this volume of musically inspired short stories, I had to laugh, because I am one of the least musical people I know. I can lose the beat of a song I am listening to. I’m sure I missed a