Make Your Vote Count
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 24. 2009 and is filed under Posts by Rebecca Luella Miller,Award.
For the longest time, the Oscar Awards were the only recognized and coveted prize in the movie industry. But times change and along came the Golden Globe Awards. While the Oscars reflect the preferences of members of "The Academy," the Golden Globes are chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But there's more. Now there's the Viewers' Choice Award, which includes actors and actresses as well as musicians and athletes—all chosen by viewers.
All that to say, the Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction (CSACS) is starting at the Readers' Choice level. But time is running out. You have exactly one week to vote. The survey closes at midnight (Pacific time), November 30.
Be sure to make your voice heard—for the sake of the book you think most qualified and for the sake of the Christian speculative genre. The one requirement is that you must have read at least one of the nominated books (listed in alphabetical order below):
- A Dark Orange Farewell by George L. Duncan (OakTara Publishing)
All My Holy Mountain by L.B. Graham (P&R Press)
Cyndere’s Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet (WaterBrook)
DragonLight by Donita K. Paul (WaterBrook)
Havah by Tosca Lee (NavPress)
Hero, Second Class by Mitchell Bonds (Marcher Lord Press)
Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow by Christopher and Allan Miller (Warner Press)
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson (WaterBrook)
Shade by John B. Olson (B&H)
Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy by Theodore Beale (Marcher Lord Press)
The Battle for Vast Dominion by George Bryan Polivka (Harvest House)
The Book of Names by D. Barkley Briggs (NavPress)
The Infinite Day by Chris Walley (Tyndale House Publishers)
The League of Superheroes by Stephen L. Rice (The Writers’ Cafe Press)
The Restorer’s Journey by Sharon Hinck (NavPress)
One last request. Tell your friends about the Clive Staples Award so they can participate as well. But hurry. Only one week to go!
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Tuesday, December 01. 2009
Tim wrote:
Hello-- a long-time sporadic lurker here. I recently read your August 7 post about escapism, and it stuck in my mind and I wanted to add some comments. Calling fantasy the "flight of the deserter" does miss fantasy's close connection with reality. But I think that calling fantasy the "escape of the prisoner" misses that connection just as much. The dichotomy seems to assume that the realm of fantasy has to be divorced from reality--whereas I think that the goal of Christian fantasy should be to unite them. Tolkien's short stories, particularly Leaf by Niggle and Smith of Wootton Major, exhibit an idea that fantasy that is not escape, but a plunge into a deeper reality. Smith (of Wootton Major) makes many visits to Faerie, but those visits serve to enhance the enchantment of the real world when he returns. The existence of Faerie in Tolkien's writings (including LotR) does not devalue reality but glorifies it. That glorification, I think, is the mark of good Christian fantasy: the writer sees the wonder and goodness (the "enchantment") already existent in reality; but he also sees that there is more enchantment, more reality, to be had.
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