[Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in theirfiction

[Greg Aikens]

John, your post also reminded me of C.S. Lewis's science fiction
trilogy, which you are probably already aware of. If not, you should
check them out. I haven't gotten a chance to read them myself yet but
have heard they are good.

Greg

On 2/1/10, John J. Boyer <john at godtouches.org> wrote:
> Laura,
>
> thanks for the info. I am interested in writing historical and science
> fiction novels from a Christian, specifically Catholic, perspective. So
> many of the well-known science-fiction authors are atheists or at least
> don't take religion seriously. There is an extensive set of books by
> Bodie and Brock Thoene with Jewish protogonists, but the authors are
> Christian. They are very pro-Jewish. The books cover the period leading
> up to World War 2 and the founding of Israel. there are also some with
> Biblical themes. An almost forgotten author is Louis de Wohl. He wrote
> novels about various Christian and biblical figures. He is a Catholic
> author. I am proofreading his books for Bookshare. The Thoene books are
> also on Bookshare.
>
> Right now I don't have much energy for writing. That will have to be a
> gift of the Lord. I'm putting what energy I have into my free,
> open-source braille transcription software, which I hope will eventually
> surpass the best of commercial software. You can learn about it at
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com . And if you want to see any fiction by me,
> please pray that I will be given the necessary energy.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:37:49PM -0600, qubit wrote:
>> Hey John, good to hear of yet another of your interests.
>> I have seen in some of the NLS talking book topics, novels about jewish
>> persons -- I don't think they are categorized as "jewish fiction", but I
>> know they are out there.  Have you ever read the novel "The Chosen"? That
>> was made into a movie which was truely an excellent flick.  I'd like to
>> read
>> the book. It's about 2 young jewish friends who wer sons of 2 rabbis with
>> radically different views.  (I wondered as I watched the movie if this was
>>
>> pure fiction or just memoirs of the author's own life as one of the boys.)
>>
>> As for Islam, you can find a number of books by muslim women living in the
>>
>> more repressed muslim countries -- but these are memoirs and not fiction.
>> For fiction, I read "The Kite Runner", which was a truely well written
>> novel
>> about 2 young boys growing up in Afghanistan.  It was not religious,
>> though -- the protagonist was the son of a non-believing muslim man, and
>> the
>> only religious persons in the book were either poor or else part of the
>> Taliban and therefore extremely violent and oppressive.
>>
>> That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
>> Let me know if this is what you are looking for.
>> Happy reading.
>> --laura
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John J. Boyer" <john at godtouches.org>
>> To: <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:30 AM
>> Subject: [Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in
>> theirfiction
>>
>>
>> I've seen a lot of Christian fiction. Now I would like to see some
>> genuine Jewish fiction. I'm afraid Isaac Bashevis Singer isn't really a
>> believer. It would also be interesting to see some fiction by genuine
>> believers in Islam and Buddhism. I'm making a sort of study of religious
>> fiction.
>>
>> Thanks and prayers,
>> John
>>
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>> John J. Boyer, Executive Director
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