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Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben discusses the need to be more intelligent and engaged readers and gives an overview of three fantasy series.

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Episode 334: The Dystopian Dilemma

February 25, 2015
Tagged as: 1984, books, Canticle for Leibowitz, Dystopian, fantasy, history's mysteries, hunger games, movies, Post-Apocalyptic, Red Dawn, sci-fi, the iliad, Tolkien, Ulysses

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, Ben analyzes how specific historical events have led to an interest in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fiction.

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Advent Antiphons in a Sci-Fi Key: December 21 – Radiant Dawn

December 21, 2014
Tagged as: Advent, Christian Year, Galadriel, prayer, The Hobbit, Tolkien

The Lady Galadriel who rules the forest of Lórien, is renowned for her beauty (among other traits, including her wisdom and mercy). Gimli the dwarf deems her fairer than “all the jewels that lie beneath…

Reflections on Tolkien’s “The Fall of Arthur”

June 6, 2013
Tagged as: Arthurian, King Arthur, Tolkien

Tolkien’s unfinished Arthurian epic is a moving narrative meditation on glory, loyalty, and fate—but not a story of hope. I’ve been a devotee of Arthurian legend since I was eight, when a visiting British relative…

Enter the SFC’s Tolkien-Lewis Writing Contest! (Deadline: March 1, 2013)

January 23, 2013
Tagged as: C.S. Lewis, Contest, Sarah Arthur, Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were both scholars of language and literature, Oxford professors, Christians, and friends. They might both also be considered the original “sci-fi Christians,” since both men used their considerable literary talent…

“The Hobbit:” One Sci-Fi Christian’s Review (with spoilers)

January 3, 2013
Tagged as: The Hobbit, Tolkien

I hesitate to say I enjoyed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey even more than I enjoyed John Carter, only because I know that won’t sound like high praise to most moviegoers. But if you read…

A Middle-earth dearth of women?

September 22, 2011
Tagged as: Evangeline Lilly, The Hobbit, Tolkien

If you’re looking forward to director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit (I know I am), you likely already know that Evangeline Lilly, late of Lost, has been cast as an elf named Tauriel, a…

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Episode 370: Fantasy and the Academy