Professor Collings' absorbing study is the first full-length treatment of Orson Scott Card, the only writer thus far to receive the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row. The author examines the unique vision and literary achievements of this writer, a consummate storyteller who uses the medium of science fiction and fantasy to give shape to his deepest religious beliefs and moral convictions.
Collings begins with an overview of Card's personal history, including his Mormon background, and suggests some guidelines for approaching the writer's work. The chapters that follow look at Card's exploration of spiritual themes in the context of alien worlds and landscapes. Among the subjects woven into his narratives are the future Christ as potential savior or destroyer, the archetype of the hero, immortality, and the realization of the kingdom of God. His major novels, including Seventh Son, Songmaster, and Wyrms , are discussed, together with many of his short stories and his critical articles, poetry, and plays. Orson Scott Card, who has been compared to C. S. Lewis, brings a depth of moral and spiritual insight to his fiction that is unusual among writers currently working in the science fiction/fantasy genre. This sensitive introduction to his work will be appreciated by scholars, students, and general readers with a specific interest in the genre or in contemporary literature, literature and religion, or epic and heroic narrative.

In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Literature & Fiction

Collings, Michael R.

History & Criticism

Praeger Pub Text

The cold of interstellar space is again closer than you think as eleven authors -- including New York Times bestseller Larry Correia, Nebula winner Eric James Stone, Amazon #1 bestseller Michaelbrent Collings, and multiple Hugo nominee Howard Tayler -- explore what happens when space opera meets Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Contents: A Darklight Call’d on the Long Last Night of the Soul – Michaelbrent Collings Dead Waits Dreaming – Larry Correia The Implant – Robert J Defendi Plague Ship – Steven L. Peck From Within the Walls – Steven Diamond Space Opera: Episode Two—The Great Old One Strikes Back – Michael R. Collings The Queen in Shadow – David J. West The Humans in the Walls – Eric James Stone Seed – D.J. Butler Full Dark – Nathan Shumate Fall of the Runewrought – Howard Tayler

Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars

Tayler, Howard

Collings, Michaelbrent

Correia, Larry

Defendi, Robert J.

Butler, D.J.

Peck, Steven L.

Shumate, Nathan

West, David J.

Stone, Eric James

Genre Fiction

Cold Fusion Media

Michael R. Collings examines the life and work of American science fiction author Piers Anthony. Starmont Reader's Guide 20.

Piers Anthony

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Borgo Press

A study of King's fiction, including a chapter on criticism and a chronology of King's works.

The Many Facets of Stephen King

Genealogy

Stephen King As Richard Bachman

Borgo Pr

Starmont's program of literary criticism zeros in on Stephen King's in all aspects: his novels; his shorter works; his pseudonymous material; his films; his life. It explores the entire extraordinary achievement that is known to us as Stephen King.

The Stephen King Phenomenon

The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America's Premier Horror Writer (Starmont Reference Guide,)

Piers Anthony (Starmont Reader's Guide)

Piers Anthony: Starmont Reader's Guide Twenty

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Stephen King As Richard Bachman (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism)

Contents:A History for Richard Bachman, Genre, Theme and Image in Richard Backman; Rage; The Long Walk; Roadwork; The Running Man; Thinner; Speculations; Appendix: The Bachman Novels - Synopses; List of Works Cited; Index

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