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To be fair, I should judge The Return by a little more than its cover, right? But we do need to start at the beginning with…

1) The cover

As a science fiction fan, this cover gets my attention. I recognize that photo from NASA’s archives. Looks like a genuine Rover shot, but I’m not really sure.

My feeling that The Return could actually be good, sound, technical science fiction is reinforced by the blurb on …

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Here it is Wednesday, and I’m just now getting to the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour! My apologies to everyone for the weak showing this round. All that to say George Bryan Polivka’s The Legend of the Firefish looks awesome. He’s got a new blog, too.

I thought it would be fun to play acquisitions editor based on the first page. What if I got this first page as an unsolicited manuscript? What works? What questions does it raise?

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It’s time for the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Tour again. This month we’re focusing on, Fearless, the second installment of Robin Parrish’s trilogy.

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Sharon Hinck has potentially done something really interesting in her latest book The Restorer—help more women understand the draw of fantasy.

After Wayne’s wonderful cautionary post about reviews, I admit I’m a little scared to review the book.

First, the prose. Karen’s prose is professional and smooth and typical of current successful Christian fiction. I can’t tell you how tired I get with bad prose. Her sentences are good. That goes a long, long way for me.

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I’m not sure what the copyright armageddon is exactly, but it sounds bad, right? We should run screaming from it, right? We should be afraid, very afraid, right?

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It’s time again for the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour! This month, we’re talking about The Sword Review, an online magazine project of Double-Edged Publishing, Inc.

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Yesterday, I started presenting the statistics from our High Calling Blog Tour… I made the audacious claim that I have found a formula for predicting the traffic that a blog can drive through its links. Today, I’m going to build on that foundation a little bit more.

I’ve already posted most of our strategy on the High Calling Blog Tour page. Essentially, I recruited bloggers I knew online to be part of the tour. Start with your friends, right?

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Some of my blogging friends are still talking about Karen Hancock’s Christian fantasy novel, Return of the Guardian-King. I thought I would highlight some of my favorite bits of wisdom they’ve shared over the past two days:

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Note to all of my virtual friends: I’ve been completely overwhelmed by the generosity and authenticity of your comments lately! Thank you so much. I look forward to interacting more intently as soon as our new and improved TheHighCalling.org is almost under wraps—later this week!

Over the next few days, the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog tour is featuring Karen Hancock. 

Return of the Guardian-King, the fourth book in a series, is a fine example of high fantasy. That is to say, Karen Hancock creates a self-contained world, a sweeping Tolkein-esque epic of politics and war and love and the followers of “Eidon, Lord of Light, Creator of All, Defender of Man. Soon may he come, and swift be his judgment.”

Hancock follows a story-telling pattern laid out by C. S. Lewis in his science fiction series and later in Narnia. God appears and redeems other worlds under other names.

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It’s Randy Ingermanson, and he’s the featured author this month for the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour. Specifically, the tour is focusing on his book Double Vision.

You can find more great links to this book by going to Bethany House directly. For now, I’m going to tease readers with his great first sentence:

Keryn Wills was in the shower when she figured out how to kill Josh Trenton.

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