{"id":907,"date":"2010-06-29T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/06\/29\/christian-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2010-06-29T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T00:02:00","slug":"christian-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/06\/29\/christian-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on io9.com, a website devoted to science fiction:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5574733\/christian-readers-demand-more-science-fiction-books-why-wont-christian-publishers-listen\">Christian readers demand more science fiction books. Why won&#8217;t Christian publishers listen?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a Christian who reads and writes science fiction, it is a bit of a puzzle.  On the other hand, my very secular, small press editor for my novels <em><a href=\"http:\/\/greatauthorsonline.com\/antediluvian?PHPSESSID=33ad2e39462c80fce5eb4985fd14cef0\">Antediluvian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0977386937\/quartzhillschool\">Somewhen Obscurely<\/a>,<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/greatauthorsonline.com\/inheritance\">Inheritance<\/a><\/em> had no problem with the Christian and religious elements in my stories.  So even if Christian publishers won&#8217;t handle science fiction, there are plenty of mainstream publishers who don&#8217;t mind Christian or religious themed science fiction. For instance, religion plays a role in many of Robert J. Sawyer&#8217;s novels.  His publisher is Tor, one of the biggest names in science fiction publishing.  His novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Calculating-God-Robert-J-Sawyer\/dp\/0765322897\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1277770048&#038;sr=8-9\">Calculating God<\/a><\/em>, is a fascinating book.  I don&#8217;t know his personal beliefs, but his novels nevertheless do not fear to examine seriously a variety of theological and religious topics.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on io9.com, a website devoted to science fiction: Christian readers demand more science fiction books. Why won&#8217;t Christian publishers listen? As a Christian who reads and writes science fiction, it is a bit of a puzzle. On the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2010\/06\/29\/christian-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}