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

Wed Feb 3 04:11:42 UTC 2010

Glad to see you on this list, Father. I don't know if the C. S. Lewis 
books are on Bookshare. The last time I looked they weren't. There may 
be a copyright issue. NLS has the second in hard-copy braille. The first 
is available in hand-copied form. I don't know about the third.

John

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:23:04AM -0800, Fr. John Sheehan wrote:
> Out of the Silent Plant
> Perelandra
> That Hideous Strength
> Great sci-fi but with depth and a Christian underpinning. 
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> From: Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com>
> To: "Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and religion" <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 5:43:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in theirfiction
> 
> 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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