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Happy Halloween, and Don’t Forget to Buy My Book Later
First up in Part One: The Good is a nice article on the theology in the recent nightmare-inducing film versions of Stephen King’s It. By Leigh Hickman.
In Part Two: The True we have a nice article by Jaclyn Parrish on H. P. Lovecraft. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Finally, in Part Three: The Beautiful we have the results of my best and oldest idea for a story.
The idea is pretty simple. Suppose that our three-dimensional universe only moves through the four-dimensional timefield once. That means that if you travel back in time you don’t find your own world. You might find another world, or no world at all. Well, my idea for a story was that the location of Hell is five minutes ago. [Maniacal Halloween laugh.]
When I first had this idea, back in 1997, I imagined demons hunting my time-traveling characters like velociraptors. Fortunately, the development of the idea now hews closer to Augustine and C. S. Lewis than to Jurassic Park. I already let you in on the premise of the story early, but I’ll hold off for now on the sci-fi twist of Dante and how it leads to an intriguing idea of how to construct lower hells as a just punishment for the extra wicked.
Hopefully, the book will be out early next year. You may now go back to wearing silly costumes, eating candy, and worrying about the election.
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Well shoot. I may have to be in for this one.
Two out of three.
Amen.
I also don’t have a lot of time. I’m trying not to think about it until I can check in on Wednesday morning from Hong Kong and make sure FL, NC, and GA at least are still Trump votes. Then maybe I can afford to think about PN.
Congrats!
Are you self publishing or using Amazon etc.?
How do we order or pre order?
Thanks. It’s published by Wipf and Stock. It should be available from their website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and I don’t even know where else. As far as I know it’s not available for preorder yet. We haven’t even been told to put the index together yet.