by Arthur | Oct 17, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Arthur here. I come to you today to open to your perusing one of the best speculative fiction series I have ever read: Swallows and Amazons. The twelve-book series combines historical fiction (at least it’s historical to us, today), children’s literature,...
by Arthur | Aug 22, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
What is a hero? There’s an interesting philosophical question for you. Are we talking a Biblical hero, a hero of the revolution, a war hero … Or a hero in fiction. A lot of good fiction books are written about a ‘hero’. It typically has to be someone in a...
by Arthur | May 30, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
The title, The Right to Arm Bears, is almost worth the purchase price of the book. I love puns. Sue me! The Christian, above all men, should be interested in culture. (IMHO) Why? Because culture both informs and flows from the underlying world view of man, which, for...
by Arthur | Jan 24, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
The Retief series is a, umm, series of brilliant books by Keith Laumer, all of them having as their protagonist the brilliantly non-diplomatic diplomat Jamie Retief. Retief is better at arm wrestling than attending cocktail parties and speaks bluntly (and often with...
by Arthur | Oct 4, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Welcome, Friday Fiction Fans! Can you believe that October is already here? And September left in its wake death and destruction from hurricane Helene. We here at Friday Fiction are praying for the people affected in the southeast. If you’d like to help, here is...
