R. E. Bartlett
Ruth is a wonderful speculative author
living in New Zealand. She has many novels in herseveral of which are already written, but
unpublished. The only one that has so far been published is another of the
four we launched Realms with.
I was thrilled with Ruth's vision of a futuristic
world in which humans can prolong their lives indefinitely through the use
of artificial bodies called personifids.
Wayne Thomas Batson
Wayne is one of a new generation of
authors writing Christian fantasy for the youth/teen/young adult market.
This is his The Door Within trilogy.
Theodore Beale
Theo, who is an American living in
Switzerland, writes very creepy supernatural thrillers for the Christian
and secular markets.
Geralyn Beauchamp
James BeauSeigneur
The lines can get a little blurry when talking about
speculative fiction. James' Christ Clone
trilogy could fit in a "pure speculative" category, but I've put them
in SF for convenience.
T. Russell Benedict
Tim published this spacefaring SF
through PublishAmerica. He is one of the fine self-published Christian
speculative novelists I am proud to promote.
Joseph Bentz
Joseph's fantasy novel is now out of
print, but you can find copies online.
Lisa T. Bergren
Lisa is best known for her historical
novels, but The Begotten is a fun spiritual
warfare novel. It was praised by Publisher's
Weekly and earned a starred review in Booklist.
Chuck Black
Chuck is another author writing youth/young adult
Christian fantasy. This is his Kingdom
series.
This series is essentially the entire Bible written
as a fantasy. Cool, huh? Kingdom's Reign is
the book of Revelation.
Austin Boyd
Austin, a former NASA astronaut finalist, writes true
science fiction, meaning fiction that is built directly atop actual
science. His Mars Hill Classified series
(released through NavPress) is about human spaceflight to Mars, the
possibility of intelligent life on Mars, and all manner of deception,
danger, and interpersonal struggle.
Grace Bridges
Grace is a New Zealander with Irish
roots. She's also an active member of The
Lost Genre Guild and the Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy
Blogtour.
This is a dark future SF in which the Awakened try to
survive despite a brutal one-world government.
Sigmund Brouwer
Like Bill Myers, Sigmund has written
both for adult and young adult audiences. His recent series with Hank
Hanegraff is good end times fiction and his Mars
Diaries series for young adults is great SF fun.
Note that this is just a sampling of
Sigmund's many speculative novels, primarily for the young adult
market.
Vernon Buford
Vernon is an author with Destiny
Image.
Davis Bunn
Davis (who also writes under T. Davis
Bunn) is a veteran Christian novelist. Most of his novels are not
speculative, but Heartland
is.
Davis also wrote The Spectrum Chronicles under the pen name
Thomas Locke. Three of the original four novels were later released as The Dream Voyagers, under the name T. Davis
Bunn.
D. Shane Burton
Shane's Orianus Creation trilogy is among the fine POD
(print-on-demand) titles I'm proud to promote.
Note that he and Josh Michael Burton
are brothers.
Josh Michael Burton
This is Josh's first novel. It's
another fine POD book. He and D. Shane Burton are
brothers.
Jack Cavanaugh
Jack is known mostly for his
award-winning historical fiction, but Death
Watch is a great speculative novel. The other books listed are
in Jack's Kingdom Wars series, new
supernatural fiction from Howard.
G.K. Chesterton
I've not read this, but a site guest
says it's "super-bizarre spec fiction by a wonderful Christian author of
past generations."
Frank Creed
Frank is a great encourager and leading
proponent of Christian speculative fiction. His near-future novel
takes place in an America ruled by a one-world
government.
Gene Curtis
Gene's novel is one of the fine POD
(print-on-demand) titles I'm proud to promote.
In this fantasy, sword-wielding magi
fight for Good.
Chase Dalton
Atlantyx
is a technothriller with a cool cover and a fun premise.
Bryan Davis
Bryan is a Christian fantasy novelist with a lot of
marketing savvy and energy. His Dragons in Our
Midst and Oracles of Fire novels have succeeded largely
because of his extensive speaking schedule where he addresses home school
groups and local libraries. He's also a skilled craftsman in the craft of
fiction. His books are for a youth audience.
Ted Dekker
The new kid on the block, relatively
speaking, is Ted Dekker. Ted's creative speculative ideas, rock star
persona, and aggressive marketing efforts have broadened the popularity of
Christian speculative fiction even further.
Sue Dent
A Christian vampire and
werewolf horror novel? Why not? These novels are said to be for young
adult readers.
John DeSimone
John's DaVinci-themed novel is good
speculative fun.
Karina and Robert Fabian
F. W. Faller
Fred's Portals
of Tessalindria fantasies didn't get the exposure they deserved.
Check them out.
Shaunti Feldhahn
Shaunti first hit the Christian reading public as
a Y2K expert, back in the day. She and I actually wrote a Y2K sourcebook
together, then I went on to edit the year-long newsletter called
"Countdown Y2K" that was Shaunti's vehicle for dissemenating preparedness
news.
Shaunti is a sweet lady and a good writer. Her For Women Only and For
Men Only books with Multnomah have done very well.
Shaunti has also written two spiritual warfare
novels. The first takes place at Harvard University, from which
institution Shaunti is a graduate.
Lelia Rose Foreman
This is juvenile SF from Eerdmans.
Far-future novel about a Christian colony's attempts to survive on a
planet a thousand light-years from earth.
Alton Gansky
Some of Al's novels are spiritual warfare, some are
supernatural thrillers, and some are chillers. The guy's mind is as
flexible as it is creative. About the only category I could find that fit
just about everything he did is this one.
Al's novel A
Ship Possessed was one of the first supernatural thrillers I read,
and the power of the genre stuck with me.
Al's speculative fiction has been a
finalist for a Christy Award in the visionary category several
times.
Sharon K. Gilbert
These appear to be spiritual warfare novels or
supernatural thrillers. The first is book 1 in The
Laodicea Chronicles and the second is book 1 in The Countdown series.
Book 2 of The
Laodicea Chronicles is available from Lulu.com, as isIron
Dragons, a fantasy novel by Sharon's husband,
Derek.
L. B. Graham
Another novelist writing Christian
fantasy for young people. This is his Binding of
the Blade series.
One striking feature of this series is that the cover
illustrations are done by the legendary Larry Elmore, of D&D and TSR
fame.
Leathel Grody
With a name like Leathel the guy's got
to be someone to be reckoned with, wouldn't you think? And Leathel
certainly is. He's an author, a Web design genius, and a computer game
designer.
His Web site dedicated to Christian science fiction
and fantasy is easily the coolest-looking such site on the
Web.
And who's ever heard of a Christian
MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game)? Well, he's
designing one! Check it out.
I'm very impressed with Mr. Grody. He's
definitely a kindred spirit.
Here are his novels, the Foundations of Hope trilogy. Books 1 and 2 are
due out in paperback in May 2007. Book 3 is coming soon.
Jane Hamilton
I'm not familiar with this author, but
a site guest like you recommended this book of hers. It appears to be a
book about an angel moving from grief to joy.
Karen Hancock
Each of Karen's first four novels won
the Christy Award in the visionary category. That's an impressive feat and
tells you how good her fantasy is.
Bill Hand
Robin Hardy
The first three below constitute The Annals of Lystra, with the following three
being The Latter Annals of
Lystra.
T. L. Higley
Tracy (who is female) has written some
excellent novels in the speculative category. She's great in all aspects
of writing, but I think she really shines when she has stories that take
place in historical eras.
Tracy's Fallen from
Babel was a time travel novel that constituted one of the four books
we launched Realms with.
Watch for a new series from Tracy releasing through
B&H.
Sharon Hinck
Sharon has published some fun (and even a little
speculative) chick-lit fiction with Bethany House. But her first love is
Christian fantasy. With no contracts and only the love of her stories
burning in her, she wrote the entire manuscripts for her Restorer trilogy.
Watch for her fantasy trilogy coming
from NavPress.
T. L. Hines
T. L. Hines (who is male, and not to be confused with
T. L. Higley, who is female), is a promising new author with a fun
speculative title from Bethany House.
Douglas Hirt
Doug's Cradleland
Chronicles is a great envisioning of life at the beginning of
mankind's time on earth.
RiverOak, who published this series, is
trying some innovative things with podcasting for these books.
Caprice Hokstad
Caprice's fantasy novel is one of the
many fine POD (print-on-demand) titles I'm happy to
promote.
Christopher Hopper
Christopher was one of the Fantasy Four
authors that made their book tour in summer 2007. These novels comprise
his White Lion Chronicles.
Tom
Horn
Tom is one
of the fine self-published authors I'm proud to feature on
WhereTheMapEnds. His novels have UFO and government cover-up
storylines.
The first
novel listed below is co-written with Nita Horn. On the second novel Tom
lists his name as Thomas R. Horn.
James Byron Huggins
Byron writes some for Christian
publishers and some for secular houses. But his speculative fiction is
always...creepy.
Angela Hunt
Angie is a prolific Christian novelist
who usually writes in other genres besides speculative. However, The Immortal, which concerns the legend of the
Wandering Jew, is clearly speculative. As is The
Truth Teller.
L. A. Kelly
L. A. "Leisha" Kelly is the author of
some Depression-era historical fiction, but this series is inspirational
fantasy.
Russell Kirkpatrick
Russell is an an interesting guy. He's
a professional mapmaker (which comes out in his world-building) and a New
Zealander, to boot. This series, "The Fire of Heaven" trilogy, was
originally released in Australia/NZ but has now come to the U.S. I've been
told he's a Christian author and these are Christian novels. They look
fun.
Jim Kraus
Not all of Jim's novels are SF, but
this one is.
Bit of trivia for you: the title "the silence" was
typed on my own keyboard and photographed by Chris Gilbert, the designer
who did this cover. Cool, huh?