When I was a kid there were two books that served to make me a life long reader. The first was Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”, the second was “A Princess of Mars” the first book in the Barsoom Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Barsoom is Burrough’s fictional local name for the planet we call [...]
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John Carter of Mars – 100 Years Later
Posted: December 8, 2011 in Books, FilmTags: Media, Science Fiction
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Monday was the first of 5 Review Clinic sessions I’ll have with Dr. James Wright, my radiation oncologist. Every Monday for the next 5 weeks (the last 5 weeks of my treatment cycle) I’ll meet with the good doctor and one of the nurses in the Review Clinic to take a look at how my [...]
[Note: This post is part of a series on Science Fiction and Spirituality that had its genesis HERE.] Yoda: “Yes. A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once [...]
Parallel Dimensions in the 19th Century
Posted: August 23, 2010 in SpiritualityTags: Religion, Science Fiction
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott (no – that’s not a typo; his middle name was the same as his surname) was headmaster of the City of London School (basically a boys school for poor children) and one of a number of Hulsean Lecturers at Cambridge University. Like most theologian/lecturers of his day he had some [...]
Les Voyages Extraordinaires
Posted: August 5, 2010 in Books, SpiritualityTags: Religion, Science Fiction
If Mary Shelley gave birth to the science fiction genre, then Jules Verne is the father that took it on Sunday outings to the country… and to Africa, to the centre of the earth, to the moon, and to a host of other remarkable places. He was also a scientific author and visionary who predicted, [...]
The author of Myriad Shades of Gray. 
