Monthly Archives: April 2014

Out of the Silent Planet, the comic book. By AaronTP

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I’ve blogged about the crazy book covers for Out of the Silent Planet, and I’ve talked about its meaning in my War of Worldviews series (Part 1 & Part 2), as well as “There’s No Such Thing as Space” and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, comics, fantasy, Out of the Silent Planet, Ransom Trilogy | 7 Comments

The Imaginative Landscape of The Worm Ouroboros

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison is one the most important early fantasy works of the twentieth century. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote: I read the works of Eddison, long after they appeared; and I once met him. I heard him in … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Reflections, Reviews | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, E.R. Eddison, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, myth, myth of sisyphus, The Worm Ouroboros | 17 Comments

Adventures in Geekland: Book Collecting and C.S. Lewis

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

Warning: You are about to experience C.S. Lewis geekery brought to a new level. Now, I have gone down this road before. After all, I travelled to New York city to spend four hours with a handwritten manuscript of The … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged book collecting, books, C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Edwin W. Brown, first editions, In Pursuit of C.S. Lewis, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light, literature, The Screwtape Letters, Walter Hooper | 16 Comments

Somebody Who Gave a Damn

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

It was an age when Kurt Cobain’s suicide made some sense. Not his own personal death, of course, distilled, slipping from faded light to darkness. It is easy to forget the icons as souls sometimes. It seemed, though, like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged 1990s, Come As You Are, Foo Fighters, Foolish Games, Jewel, Kurt Cobain, Pieces of You, Poetry, pop culture, Soundgarden, suicide | 3 Comments

Sometimes It’s Hard To Know What God Wants: A Response to Noah

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

Sometimes it is hard to know what God wants. Set aside for a moment the strengths and weaknesses of the new film adaptation of Noah featuring Russell Crowe. And leave for another day the questions of myth and history, of … Continue reading →