Warning: the post you are about to read is a satiric message in the spirit of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. My dear Wormwood, Our Father Below has just notified me concerning a matter of positively grave concern. The American humans are currently producing a “theater adaptation” of our embarrassing correspondence that the infernal Oxford
“Religion and Rocketry”
Along with fantasy (as was covered in a blog post not too long ago), C.S. Lewis was no stranger to the genre of science fiction. His interest in the potential connections between sci-fi and religion spanned not only his novels (notably the Space Trilogy) but also his nonfiction. He wrote an essay–Religion and Rocketry (which
A Word of Grace – March 22, 2010
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A Word of Grace – March 15, 2010
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How “Real” is “Fantasy” Art?
An interesting debate has started between two authors on the internet about the nature of Art and whether fantasy literature qualifies. The first article, fromThe New Atlantis, features an argument by James Bowman about the nature of realism and fantasy in art, and why he does not consider fantasy art — the genre of choice