PURE CATHOLIC SCI-FI/FANTASY
Brendan and Erc
are just your average interplanetary mailmen trying to find their way in the
galaxy. But one day, while piloting cargo through the far reaches of space,
they suddenly find themselves on a journey they didn't expect: a journey to the
truth.
A
head-spinning blend of theology, suspense, and personal drama, Christus tells the story of
haunted Georgia billionaire Anson MacDonald who recruits a pricy team of
time-traveling physicists and historians in an effort to reach back through
time and literally kidnap
Christ — to bring him to our own time, make him sit for modern
questions and video record his answers. And what if MacDonald
were to succeed? Would his captured Messiah do miracles? Start a
revolution? Would he disappoint his followers — or disappoint the
skeptics? -
To me, writing is storytelling.
It's about communicating truth and beauty -- the things that people know and
love. I like to tell my stories in a big universe, speaking to as many people
as possible.
Catholic authors who do publish
successfully in the secular world do not necessarily succeed because they are
reaching a Catholic audience. Their works may be faith-filled witnesses to the
Catholic faith in subtle or bold ways, but these authors are successful because
their works strike a chord in Protestants, Jews, the unchurched, and people of
other faiths - NOT because they are reaching a Catholic audience who is eagerly
identifying themselves with the Catholic author's faith. Thus Catholics can be
surprised to learn that authors like J.R.R. Tolkien in the past and Patrick
O'Brien today (author of Master and
Commander) are Catholics.
Fairy Tale Retold
Snow White and Rose Red (1997)
The Shadow of the Bear (2002)
Black As Night (2004)
Waking Rose (2007)
The Midnight Dancers (2008)
Novels
Alex O'Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves (2010)
Catholic Philosopher Chick Makes Her Debut (2012) (with Rebecca Bratten
Weiss)
T.M. Doran
Toward the Gleam: A Novel
(Mar 1, 2011)
"As this intriguing story
unfolds, readers will be asked to reconsider what we thought we knew and loved
so well. Flashes of recognition will occur as famous figures appear, identified
only by their first names. As the plot develops, a vast landscape of drama
emerges, reaching across time, probing the reasons behind the rise and fall of
civilizations, our own and also another that we have considered to be myth-or
fiction. The author's whimsical sense is a fine one, though he does not show
his hand too early on. His wisdom is fully evident throughout. This is a
dark mystery tale, a gripping adventure, and in its own unique way a comedeia,
plunging us into the war in the heavens and the wars for souls. Ingeniously
inventive, it is startling, moving, horrifying at times, and ultimately
consoling." -
Michael D. O'Brien, Author, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
A murder mystery and a coming of age
story, both with many twists and turns,Terrapin is about man's potential
for doing either good or evil, his tendency to do the latter, and his response
to the consequences of his actions.
Dr. David C. Downing
Looking
For The King An Inklings (2010)
Infinite Space, Infinite God, edited by Karina and Robert Fabian, is billed
as an anthology of Catholic SF, but it’s much more than that. The 15 stories
cover broad thematic ground, and though the Catholic Church plays a role in all
of them, each story offers a vastly different perspective. This volume isn’t
just of interest to Catholics—it’s good SF that engages in exactly the kind of
speculation that keeps the genre vibrant. The editors’ introductions to the
stories are intelligent and informative, giving some excellent background data
on the specific aspects of the church that the stories explore. It’s a great
anthology,
Inifinite Space, Infinite
God (Aug 15, 2007)
Infinite Space, Infinite
God II (Nov 15, 2010)
Leaps
of Faith by Karina Fabian, Robert Fabian and Simon
Morden (Nov 1, 2008)
by Paul Leone and Paula Graves (Mar 14, 2013)
Lucy Manning just wanted an ordinary
life. But surviving a vicious vampire attack has put the young American in the
middle of a holy war between a secret society of vampire hunters loyal to the
Catholic Church--and an ancient and powerful vampire queen who has awakened
from a long slumber with dreams of blood and conquest in her demonic mind.
Lucy may not want to do battle with
a ruthless, eternal evil, but evil has other ideas....
An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of
'Isa Ben Adam Peter Kreeft (2011)
When people hear that I wrote a “novel” and ask what it is about, I tell
them (1) that it’s not a novel and (2) that it’s about an angel’s-eye view of
the connections between Jesus Christ, Muhammad, dead Vikings, sassy Black
feminists, Dutch Calvinist seminarians, very large Mother-substitutes, armless
nature-mystics, Caribbean rubber dancers, the Wandering Jew, angels in
disguise, three popes in one year, Cortez, Romeo and Juliet, the sea serpent,
our Lady of Guadalupe, the demon Hurricano, islam in the art of body surfing,
the universal fate wave theory, the Palestinian intifadah, the fatal beauty of
the sea, dreams of Jungian archetypes, the dooms of the Boston Red Sox, the
abortion wars, the Great Blizzard of ’78, the wisdom of the ‘handicapped,’ the
ecumenical jihad, the psychology of suicide, and the end of the world.
But that’s an oversimplfication
The story centers on Alphonse, a child whose
heroine-addict mother attempts a late term abortion only to have a sentient,
strong baby escape the attempt and flee the clinic with the help of a pro-life
activist. The tension at the heart of the novel revolves around the reaction to
the prenatal assault. It is a struggle between desire for revenge and the need
for redemption with all the shadows and twisting emotions in between. The child
at the center of this struggle is certainly unnerving, but ultimately human and
that is why the story works.
Angel Fire by Mary Marshall
Set in the near future on the eve of the new millennium, Angel Fire is a
suspenseful drama that merges the super natural with science fiction and the
fundamentals of Christianity.
When nine-year-old C.J. Walker touches the arm of his mother's dead friend at her wake service and whispers the wish that she wouldn't be dead, he's just trying to do the right thing. But when the undertaker sees the woman's rosary sliding off her outstretched fingers and tumbling down her raised left arm, the firestorm can't be held in check. Frightened people near and far demand to know how many of their own loved ones might have been buried alive by the same undertaker, or by any undertaker.
But proof that C.J. Walker can indeed raise the dead is secretly videoed, then publicly aired. In a single morning, C.J.'s mother, Lynn, watches their home becoming a fortress and her son becoming a target. Grieving individuals desperate to see death let go of their loved ones; representatives from news, medical, and scientific organizations; influential religious representatives; and powerful government agencies all move in to gain maximum positions of influence over the greatest power on earth.
Through the ordeal, Lynn and her separated husband, Joe, struggle to find a way to escape with C.J., to keep him hidden from every pursuer, and somehow to make it possible for him to live a normal life again. But to do it all they must act quickly, before he's stolen away by authorities in high places.
My Catholic faith is my life. Any
artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature
of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is
to create. During the 30 years I have been a painter and writer, I have noted a
distinct pattern in myself: Whenever my prayer and sacramental life grow lax,
the work suffers. It may continue to be clever and even dazzling to the eye,
yet it becomes more and more shallow. .
It goes without saying that a good
Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative
person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his
art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and
plots.
By restoring men and women to an
understanding of their eternal value, and at the same time restoring in them a
sense of wonder and consciousness of the splendor of existence. We are all
involved in a great drama, the Great Story. Yet the nature of the new
democratized cosmos fundamentally distorts how we understand the shape of
reality.
The truth is, we live in a
hierarchical creation that is involved in a vast and complex war that will last
until the end of time. Born into this war zone, we are profound mysteries to
ourselves, inherently glorious and potentially tragic. Yet by and large, modern
culture has destroyed this sense of mystery. Role of Catholic Writer
Bibliography
Children of the Last Days
Father Elijah (1996)
Strangers and Sojourners
(1997)
Eclipse of the Sun (1998)
Plague Journal (1999)
A Cry of Stone (2003)
Sophia House (2005)
Novels
The Island of the World (2007)
Theophilos (2010)
The Father's Tale (2011)
Voyage to Alpha Centauri (2013)
Picture Books
The Small Angel (1993)
Drumwall Lynden Rodriguez
The
mining colony at Drumwall Fortress on the planet of Cumaro was
the ideal assignment: pristine, wild, and beautiful; with but one deadly flaw;
Lord Banyon, the local tribal chieftain of the Mautlaut. Two years prior to
Father Andrew's arrival, his predecessor, Father Menlo, disappeared under
mysterious circumstances. But now, a Mautlaut runner has brought a message from
Lord Banyon - written in faultless English. Could Father Menlo still be alive?
But as Father Andrew begins to solve the baffling disappearance of his predecessor, he is haunted by yet another personal mystery. In discovering an ancient Cumaron text in a long forgotten library at Drumwall, Father Andrew begins experiencing visions. Are these visions of God, or are they a split from reality and a further spiraling downward into madness?
But as Father Andrew begins to solve the baffling disappearance of his predecessor, he is haunted by yet another personal mystery. In discovering an ancient Cumaron text in a long forgotten library at Drumwall, Father Andrew begins experiencing visions. Are these visions of God, or are they a split from reality and a further spiraling downward into madness?
My Visit to Hell by Paul Thigpen
Nearly seven hundred years ago the Italian poet Dante wrote The Inferno,
an epic tale of the fate awaiting doomed souls in the underworld. Now, the
story continues… Thomas Travis had always thought the toughest streets in the
ghettos of Atlanta were next door to hell. But he didn’t know just how close
they were until the threat of racial violence sent him fleeing down the stairs
of an abandoned building…only to fall headlong into a tortured realm of fire
and ice, the place of the damned. The only chance of escape was to trust the
strange elderly woman who met him there and insisted on being his guide. She
claimed to know the way out, but it would lead through all the terrifying
circles of divine judgment, each one deeper and more tormenting than the last.
In the lowest pit, the Lord of Darkness himself lay in wait. Thomas had lived a
godless life, and now there was hell to pay. If his soul could be purged on the
journey, he just might make it. But the odds were against him. In hell, the
only guarantee is justice…and the only way out is down.
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