{"id":38650,"date":"2012-10-04T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=38650"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:03:44","slug":"i-believe-in-supporting-local-first-time-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/10\/i-believe-in-supporting-local-first-time-authors.html","title":{"rendered":"I believe in supporting local first time authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Chris Jones is both and has written a novella called The Glass Ruins<\/em>.\u00a0 Sez he:<\/p>\n

In <\/em>The Glass Ruins a man is sent from the future to present-day Seattle to convince his pregnant mother not to abort him.<\/em>
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\nJasper Carnelian is a family man living in a post-collapse America with only the remnants of our current technology. Returning from an errand one night he is met by a mysterious man who supernaturally dispatches him to our present-day Seattle, with instructions only to find his young mother Annette. He soon realizes he is in a time before his birth, yet during his mother\u2019s pregnancy with him.<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nThe story alternates between Jasper\u2019s trip to present-day Seattle and a time in the post-collapse future when Jasper is just ten years old.<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nIn the present, he meets homeless men who discuss the failings of our world, lives through a bombing attack, and struggles to find his mother as a city falls into chaos.<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nIn the future, Jasper questions a gas station owner on the origin of the universe, the big bang, and God.<\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read it for free here<\/a>.\u00a0 He demonstrates once again Orson Scott Card\u2019s remark that the only place in\u00a0popular culture where you get to explore theological questions (that is, the really important questions that have preoccupied the human heart since the dawn of time) is in science fiction and fantasy.\u00a0 Everywhere else, clever people have decreed such matter verboten.\u00a0 This is called \u201cfreedom of thought\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Jones is both and has written a novella called The Glass Ruins.\u00a0 Sez he: In The Glass Ruins a man is sent from the future to present-day Seattle to convince his pregnant mother not to abort him. \u00a0 Jasper Carnelian is a family man living in a post-collapse America with only the remnants of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-38650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-recommendations"],"yoast_head":"\nI believe in supporting local first time authors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chris Jones is both and has written a novella called The Glass Ruins.\u00a0 Sez he: In The Glass Ruins a man is sent from the future to present-day Seattle to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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