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11/04/2025

"For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it."

Still no word from the Netflix people.

Do they really intend to cast an actress, not necessarily known for her wild and stentorian tones, as the voice of Aslan?

Or was it a false flag? Some fake news to test for leaks? A rumor gone amok?

Right now it seems they're really letting this story stand, and doing nothing to address the concerns of fans. That's not at all a great start for the Netflix version of Narnia.

E. Stephen Burnett sounds the call in this week's Fantastical Truth episode.

08/04/2025

FOR NARNIA! AND FOR ASLAN!

The summons is made. Fans must answer.

🦁 We are all in uproar over this confirmed rumor that someone (not sure who) in the Netflix production wants a female actor to portray the very male, wild, deep-voiced, Christ-of-a-magical-world great Lion, Aslan.

and remind us why Aslan (like Jesus) is male, recount the rumor, then own this nonsense with facts and logic as well as Narnian joviality.

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He is the King, we tell you. Son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. Creator of all. At the back of all stories. He is not a TAME lion.

Rest between the paws of the true Aslan.

At the same time, with songs in your heart and sharp wisdom in your hands, contact the Netflix production to say no one wants this. And let none other dissuade you.

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3. Inheritance by J. A. Webb

07/04/2025

The war is over.

A prince is about to become the king. Cole, as the prince’s squire, ought to be sitting pretty amid all the victory. But a charming girl comes to him with a murder to report, and his troubles proliferate from there ...

Our reviewer enjoyed Squire of Truth, book 1 of the new Blood of Kings: Legends series by !

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01/04/2025

Christian astronauts launch above Earth.

And you may in your lifetime see them land on Mars. (And that's no April Fool's prank.)

Until then, we can enjoy the few examples of Christian-made novels set on the red planet. Have you read these fairly recent books?

- The Mars Diaries/Robot Wars middle-grade series by Sigmund Brouwer
- Oxygen and The Fifth Man by John B. Olson and Randall Ingermanson
- The Mars Hill Classified trilogy by Austin Boyd
- Missionary to Mars by
- The Time Door by

In today's new episode, takes the helm to review these titles and a few more to conclude our Martian Month series. Seek out Fantastical Truth on any podcast player or at Lorehaven dot com!

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1. Illuminary by .schroeder from and
2. Here Lyeth by
3. Inheritance by J. A. Webb

27/03/2025

We don't want no trouble.

But sometimes the space Westerns are quicker on the draw than regular 'uns.

Says author Michael F. Kane in this week's new podcast episode 255, "What Are Space Westerns?":

🤠 "The Western, in some ways, is the American myth, right? It is the American myth of: we started on the Eastern seaboard, there's an entire continent that's only loosely populated, and it is dangerous, but there is high reward for pushing west and carving out little pieces of civilization along the way until the West is eventually won. It is deeply rooted in the American myth.

"Whereas Mad Max is the opposite. It's a similar setting, but it's a deconstruction about the fall of civilization, not the founding of civilization.

"So it's an opposite mythos in a way. Despite sharing that setting, the trappings in the setting, it is philosophically, diametrically opposed to the Western."

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27/03/2025

MISSING: one handsome Prince.

Tall, square-jawed. Rides a horse. Gazes adoringly. Shows up last-minute, princeps ex machina, for a famous kiss and grand finale at the faraway castle.

Have you seen this apprentice monarch?

A few viewers of Disney's recent "Snow White" remake didn't see this Prince, only another fellow called "Jonathan." And in today's Onscreen article, Parker J Cole wants to know why.

"Why can’t the princess be rescued by the Prince?" Parker asks. "Or, if not rescued, then why couldn’t she fight by Prince’s side? Could not his army have arrived in her hour of need? Could their forces, joined together, not have overthrown the Queen?"

Read the full piece today at Lorehaven dot com (link below). Subscribe if ye like for more Onscreen features plus weekly reviews and podcasts exploring the best Christian-made fantastical fiction.

26/03/2025

Across the deserts of Mars, you might meet all kinds of men:

- armed men,
- four-armed men,
- lone lawmen,
- outlaw men

In this week's new podcast episode, E. Stephen Burnett and Zack Russell ride onto newer frontiers to explore space Westerns like After Moses with author Michael F. Kane ! Seek out Fantastical Truth episode 255 wherever you listen to podcasts. Or get the full version at Lorehaven dot com (link below).

EPISODE SPONSORS
1. 1232: dramatic audio podcast from Callie Sioux Schiavone
2. Lord of Winter by Jill Williamson and Andrew Swearingen - Author from Sunrise Publishing
3. Fragments by J. A. Webb

24/03/2025

"All the Disney remakes are terrible!"

If we think this, we may miss our invitation to this royal ball by Sir Kenneth Branagh. Just like a lot of critics back then disliked the film--and unfortunately they drove many bad trends of the newer Disney remakes.

Cinderella (2015) was released ten years ago. Our publisher is still stanning this story he calls "near-Narnian":

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Branagh does not try to force the original tale into a postmodern, ironic “reboot.” Instead the film rediscovers the story, combining old colors, ideas, even traditional morality in new ways.
.. In retrospect, I think my [initial] praise was too light. Branagh’s lavish yet traditional version of Cinderella arguably exceeds the enchantment of the 1956 original. It’s a product of its time, but timeless. And despite its corporate origins, it sings with independent voices, far stronger than its critics.
🐁🩰🤴

Today's article at Lorehaven.com explores:

- how Cinderella critics refused to dance
- Prince Kit versus a "materialist magician"
- Cinderella versus her sour stepmother
- this classic story's eternal vision vs. haters

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21/03/2025

What if you were perfectly content making fun maps of your real fantasy world ... until war forces you into it?

NEW fantastical review today!

We fell for Darkfell, the new fantasy from author Amanda Wright plus Quill and Flame Publishers.

"Unless Thom can become a Realm Walker and fulfill his destiny, his world ... will be destroyed by a deathless enemy from a dark realm of monsters," our review says. "Darkfell draws a fantasy realm that feels like a darker version of Narnia, including half-human beings, talking bat-like creatures, and witty banter between brothers."

That's quite an epic start. Finish the review today at Lorehaven dot com! (Link below.) There we have (checks) more than 330 reviews of the best Christian-made fantastical novels we can find.

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18/03/2025

Dragons are magical. They can fly. Shoot fire. Occasionally turn invisible. And take you into strange incredible worlds.

And yet ...

Spaceships are fantastic. They can also fly, shoot fire, occasionally turn invisible, and take you into strange incredible worlds.

So ... let them fight.

In today's new episode we celebrate the best of both worlds, fantasy and sci-fi, with .nelson.author 's new fantasy release EMBERGOLD. Seek out Fantastical Truth episode 254 on any podcast platform! Plus get show notes at Lorehaven dot com.

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EPISODE SPONSORS:
1. Embergold by .nelson.author from and
2. Lord of Winter by and from
3. Fragments by J. A. Webb

15/03/2025

"Where was I when the rockets came to life?"

Someday we'll be able to answer: We were there, when humans finally (as it now seems!) launched Space Race 2.0. Now with more cameras! Social media! AI! And private corporation funding!

That's not how we envisioned this back in 2001. Back then, NASA was the only game in town. Same with network and cable news stations. And in this now–alternate history, the media is all over new astronaut recruit Valkerie Jansen, bound for the first mission to Mars.

"Valkerie could be one of the most likeable and naturally strong female characters in Christian-made fiction," says E. Stephen Burnett. "Not only is she one of the few female scientist heroines about the place, smart and ambitious, but she also stands up for her faith, defending her people while conceding Christians’ flaws."

Yet how will Valkerie respond when she learns a saboteur damaged Ares 10?

Behold this underrated groundbreaker: OXYGEN by John B. Olson and Randall Ingermanson. Read the retro-rocket featured review at Lorehaven dot com. Just head there and search for Oxygen!

13/03/2025

Was author Edgar Rice Burroughs the first literary man on Mars?

Not quite.

We did some research. It turns out a British author beat Burroughs to the red planet 32 years earlier. Not only that, but this author was first to set in print a certain famous term we've now heard for decades with reference to human travelers in space.

For more Martian goodness in this Martian Month, listen to this week's new Fantastical Truth episode 253. Seek this podcast on any platform or with bonuses at Lorehaven dot com (see below link).

11/03/2025

We just got back from Mars. Wow, our arms are tired.

Legs too. All muscles so tired. That is what the lower gravity will do to you. Also we may need to get checked for radiation, frostbite, oxygen deprivation...

Why would anyone want to go here?

Because it's there. And long before real explorers set foot on the Red Planet, over a century of sci-fi writers have been projecting human heroes into this world.

Today's new Fantastical Truth episode follows these journeys with an eye toward the big ideas of science fiction as shaped by this one planet. Listen today to episode 253 on any podcast player. Or get the whole archive with bonuses at Lorehaven dot com!

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1. Embergold by .nelson.author from
2. Lord of Winter by and from
3. Fragments by J. A. Webb

06/03/2025

In the future, Christians stay in their preserves, worship in their local churches, and raise their families.

Meanwhile, CAUSE expands across the worlds to celebrate the human image.

They're a secular state. Their leaders govern space exploration. And they have some good points, really, plus a lot of fantastical technologies.

How's a Christian to live in this future?

What if you, like Brock and Alicia Rivers, want to protect their people but also resist CAUSE segregation?

E. Stephen Burnett and Zack Russell go Above the Circle of Earth in this week's new podcast episode. Share this episode by the end of this Friday (tag Stephen and Lorehaven ) for your chance to get a custom-signed ACE copy plus Space Mission swag!

04/03/2025

Now available in all systems: our own publisher’s debut sci-fi adventure, Above the Circle of Earth.

Want to win this book? Read onward …

The fight for the Space Mission begins in his homeworld.

Brock Rivers never wanted to be a repairman on Mars. Years ago, he failed to protect his family, and now he labors across a frontier planet to keep his children alive and escape CAUSE. Now he is summoned back to Earth for an impossible dream: to resist CAUSE, confront the secret adversaries among his own people, and to restore gospel missions in the 22nd century.

Zackary Russell puts E. Stephen Burnett in the interview chair to explore this new craft:

- Command deck, with heroes, plot, and big ideas
- Living deck, with people, dialogue, and little details
- Labor deck, with craft, science, and worldbuilding

Seek and find Fantastical Truth episode 252 on all podcast apps! Or for the complete archive, set a course for Lorehaven dot com.

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03/03/2025

This sounds like a story with depth:

"Levi and Drasa are tasked with guarding The Gorge, a miles-long wound in the earth, perpetually flooded with mist and shrouded in government secrecy since the end of World War II."

A. D. Sheehan enjoyed The Gorge from director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Doctor Strange, The Black Phone). Also, this story offers ... a hero who was homeschooled?

"[Miles] Teller brings a nuanced and believable performance to his depiction of a troubled but competent veteran, whose homeschool education and traditional upbringing lead him down paths of thought few tough guy action heroes have dared to tread. [Anna] Taylor Joy likewise brings her usual brilliance to her performance."
—A. D. Sheehan for Lorehaven Onscreen

Find the full review today at Lorehaven dot com, right on the front page. Link below!

28/02/2025

One hundred years from now, you can't share your faith outside your homeworld's religious preserve.

Not without paying a price.

Brock and Alicia Rivers learned this the hard way. Now, seven years later, their young family has a chance to escape exile on Mars and fulfill their dream of restoring missions in the 22nd century. And if you can't do that on Earth, well, they know where to voyage instead.

If only the humanistic regime CAUSE weren't dead-set against this. And if only that shadowy foe, from within their own people, had not risen up ...

Reviewer Shannon McDermott enjoyed Above the Circle of Earth, launching this Tuesday from Enclave Publishing and our publisher E. Stephen Burnett:

"In Above the Circle of Earth, E. Stephen Burnett combines hard science fiction with profound religious themes. Technologies like spaceships, quantum travel, and Martian domes have advanced society into long-anticipated secularism and centralization."

Read the full review today at Lorehaven dot com, now recovered from a swarm of modern/futuristic AI scraper bots! Link below.

27/02/2025

What alternate timeline is this?

Christian creators are making not just excellent live-action biblical fiction, but also animated epics?

With the same animation studio, Tiger Animation, that helped create classic series like X-Men '97, Justice League: Unlimited, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Young Justice, and Castlevania?

And with top voice talent like Matt Lanter and James Arnold Taylor (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as well as Danica McKeller (Young Justice)?

"Nothing—absolutely nothing—about this show looks crowdfunded," reports Jenneth Leed for Lorehaven Onscreen. "Angel Studios has achieved the mainstream look of high-budget cartoons like Young Justice, and it’s incredible."

Read the full story below.

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"For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it." Still no word from the Netflix people. Do they really intend to cast an actress, not necessarily known for her wild and stentorian tones, as the voice of Aslan? Or was it a false flag? Some fake news to test for leaks? A rumor gone amok? Right now it seems they're really letting this story stand, and doing nothing to address the concerns of fans. That's not at all a great start for the Netflix version of Narnia. E. Stephen Burnett sounds the call in this week's Fantastical Truth episode. #ForNarnia #AslanIsKing #TheMagiciansNephew

We don't want no trouble. But sometimes the space Westerns are quicker on the draw than regular 'uns. Says author Michael F. Kane in this week's new podcast episode 255, "What Are Space Westerns?": 🤠 "The Western, in some ways, is the American myth, right? It is the American myth of: we started on the Eastern seaboard, there's an entire continent that's only loosely populated, and it is dangerous, but there is high reward for pushing west and carving out little pieces of civilization along the way until the West is eventually won. It is deeply rooted in the American myth. "Whereas Mad Max is the opposite. It's a similar setting, but it's a deconstruction about the fall of civilization, not the founding of civilization. "So it's an opposite mythos in a way. Despite sharing that setting, the trappings in the setting, it is philosophically, diametrically opposed to the Western." Seek ye Fantastical Truth on any platform by searching for Lorehaven. Or visit Lorehaven dot com for the complete podcast archive.

Was author Edgar Rice Burroughs the first literary man on Mars? Not quite. We did some research. It turns out a British author beat Burroughs to the red planet 32 years earlier. Not only that, but this author was first to set in print a certain famous term we've now heard for decades with reference to human travelers in space. For more Martian goodness in this Martian Month, listen to this week's new Fantastical Truth episode 253. Seek this podcast on any platform or with bonuses at Lorehaven dot com (see below link).

In the future, Christians stay in their preserves, worship in their local churches, and raise their families. Meanwhile, CAUSE expands across the worlds to celebrate the human image. They're a secular state. Their leaders govern space exploration. And they have some good points, really, plus a lot of fantastical technologies. How's a Christian to live in this future? What if you, like Brock and Alicia Rivers, want to protect their people but also resist CAUSE segregation? E. Stephen Burnett and Zack Russell go Above the Circle of Earth in this week's new podcast episode. Share this episode by the end of this Friday (tag Stephen and Lorehaven ) for your chance to get a custom-signed ACE copy plus Space Mission swag!

You could win a free copy of The God of Story! Read on to learn how ... “Do you not understand this parable?” Christians debate why Jesus often spoke in parables—short stories that teach a lesson about His Kingdom. Did the Lord teach this way to share the truth as far as it could possibly go? Well, yes. Or did He teach this way to hide the truth so that people would dig for it? Well, also yes. But that's part of the answer. To explore the rest, listen to Fantastical Truth episode 250, featuring The God of Story author Daniel Schwabauer. SHARE THIS EPISODE by end of Friday, Feb. 21, for your chance to win your own signed copy of The God of Story. Just be a U.S. resident and share this episode, tagging us Lorehaven, for your chance to win our drawing. We'll announce the winner this Tuesday in episode 251, about the "vibe shift" that could be changing how we perceive a fantastical story's book's General Audience. (Episode link below!)

Do you know how the romantasies came into being? They were distinct genres once. Met at a dance. Fell in love. Married. And now ... perfected? From the old label "fantasy romance" to the new BookTok-powered term "romantasy." Parker J Cole shares that backstory and finds Jesus in this genre. Listen to this week's Fantastical Truth episode, perfect for men, women, or couples to see why these novels are so loved. Also: SHARE THIS EPISODE for your chance to win a copy of Parker's own romantasy/fairy tale retelling/space opera novel, The House of Haddaway!

Want to win a copy of Clint Hall's Echo Nova? 1. Be a United States resident 2. Share this episode in an Instagram story or post! 3. Tag us @lorehavenmag and tag @clinthall 4. Mention the new novel, Echo Nova We will announce one winner in five days, Tuesday, Jan. 28. Share this one soon before time runs out! Listen to Fantastical Truth on any podcast platform. Or head to Lorehaven dot com for the complete archive. Subscribe free to get new weekly episodes and Creator-exalting resources as you like them.

Hark! Want to win Squire of Truth? Jill Williamson's new novel just released, and she explores this and other medieval fantasy in this week's Fantastical Truth episode 245. If you share this episode and name her book on social media, we'll enter you in the free drawing Tuesday, Jan. 21: Want to win one of two Squire of Truth print copies? 1. Be a United States resident 2. Share this episode here on Instagram (or Facebook or X) 3. Tag Lorehaven and Jill Williamson 4. Mention the novel, Squire of Truth We will announce two winners just one week from today, Tuesday, Jan. 21 (same day as our next episode about soft sci-fi with Clint Hall). You'll get a physical copy of the book from Sunrise Publishing plus signed name plate from Jill herself. Meanwhile, listen to every Fantastical Truth episode at Lorehaven dot com. Or subscribe with any podcast app!

Good fans will save good old things. But "saving" can become "hoarding." Especially when we're tempted to believe that only a few authors are Best and other stories are worthless. Do we feel that way about new music? Food? Vacation spots? Other humans? E. Stephen Burnett and Zack Russell challenge early versions of "Lewis-and-Tolkien-Only-ism in this week's episode. Seek out Fantastical Truth on any podcast streamer or at Lorehaven dot com. Next week: we're on break. New Year's Eve: our top ten special.

What makes a story a Christmas story? One guideline: it has to be a story you prefer to save for the Christmas season, rather than a story you can also enjoy year-round. That's the take from Zack. And as Stephen adds: if the story was a movie, was it also released around Christmastime? Listen to episode 241 by seeking #FantasticalTruth on any podcast player. And be ready to unwrap episode 242 releasing tomorrow about the growing fan trend that we call #LewisandTolkienOnlyism. What are your favorite Christmas-themed stories? #Christmasfantasy #Christmasstories #Christmasmovies #ChristmasMagic #FantasticalStoriesForGodsGlory

How in the Heavens could C. S. Lewis's #RansomTrilogy work on screen? Zack Russell believes today's viewers won't accept a mythical version of Mars. So it's best to relocate the story somewhere underground or perhaps to another planet entirely. E. Stephen Burnett believes audiences are fine with retro-historical imagination. More importantly, without the mythical Martian setting, the whole idea collapses. What do you think? Listen to the full Fantastical Truth episode 240 at Lorehaven.com. Or look for Lorehaven on any podcast streaming platform. #RansomTrilogy #SpaceTrilogy #CSLewis #CSLewisReadingDay #OutoftheSilentPlanet #Perelandra #ThatHideousStrength #spaceopera #FantasticalStoriesforGodsGlory

What's your favorite story style? 🎩 Ornate literary fiction? 🛠 Straightforward genre fiction? In today's new #FantasticalTruth episode, @estephenburnett laments dull Englist professors and endless symbol-seeking. But he praises any genre fiction that can reach more readers and also include surprising depth of meaning. Listen today on any streaming service! #literaryfiction #genrefiction #FantasticalStoriesForGodsGlory

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