Ruth is a wonderful speculative author living in New Zealand. She has many novels in her—several of which are already written, but unpublished.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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I wrote about Randy in the Christian Science Fiction section, but since several of his novels are more accurately time travel, I've put them here.
Transgression won a Christy award for excellence in Christian fiction.
Shane's Chayatocha was the first novel I've read that I would consider almost Christian horror. It's a fabulous premise and a good read. Shane's speculative fiction has been nominated for a Christy Award.
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?
It would be easy to argue that Stephen Lawhead ought to be placed in the category of industry-shaping giants of Christian speculative fiction. His Pendragon series was among the first I discovered in Christian bookstores. Some of the images from Taliesin—the bull leaping, for instance—stick in my mind to this day.
Stephen has moved on to mostly secular publishing now, as this is where he's found a larger audience. But his origins are with us and he has still provided some of the most wonderful Christian fantasy of the modern era. His novel Byzantium, though technically a historical and not speculative, is still the finest Christian novel I've ever read.
Lynn Marzulli (who is male) wrote the Nephilim series, which is great Christian science fiction.
Also, if you're interested in UFOs from the worldview of Christianity, be sure to check out my white paper on the subject.
I introduced Bill back in Christian Science Fiction, but his young adult series, Forbidden Doors, is so clearly in the chiller category that I'm listing them here.
John and Randy wrote Oxygen, perhaps one of the first Christian novels that used real science in its fiction. That novel won the Christy Award in the visionary category and launched John's individual writing career.
John has published the Joe Box trilogy, which is in the thriller genre. But he's got an unpublished speculative series that will hopefully be available soon.
Gravity Fades
A Certain Slant of Light
Julie Rollins
Julie has written a SF series, The Vadelah Chronicles, in which spacefaring aliens worship the God of the Bible (or not).
Also catch my white paper called UFOs and the Christian Worldview.
Me again. My first three novels were near-future technothrillers featuring virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering.
The second trilogy is a Christian military thriller series, which has nothing to do with speculative fiction, but it's my site so I get to promote them anyway! Bwahahahaha!
And did I mention I've co-written two nonfiction books, too? Check out my Web page here.
James's novel is part SF part fantasy. It takes place in a faraway sector of space, but it's a battle between good and evil, like those done so well in fantasy.
Steve's SF novel is not available through Amazon in the U.S. (but it is available through www.amazon.co.uk).
You can also find it at his Web page: www.stevetrower.co.uk.
Countless as the Stars
Kathy Tyers
Before coming to Christian SF Kathy had written Star Wars and other secular SF novels for Random House. Her Firebird trilogy was the first that made me pay attention to Christian SF.
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