A common beef Christians have with dystopian stories is that they are hopeless. It’s common because it can be very true – dystopias are designed to display a reality where all feels lost, where people feel crushed and hopeless, and evil has all the power. So it makes sense that books and movies in this […]
Why Katniss Everdeen Has No Hope – But We Do
http://simmeringmind.com/why-katniss-has-no-hope-but-we-do/
Some Other Perspectives on “The Hunger Games”
I’m always surprised to see that one of the top posts on this blog is my review of The Hunger Games. There are a lot of reviews of this book (or the movie) out there right now, and I am continually seeing new ones that bring out other points I didn’t see or didn’t expound […]
http://simmeringmind.com/some-other-perspectives-on-the-hunger-games/
Five Favorite Science-Fiction TV Shows
Growing up, I was always more a lover of fantasy than science-fiction. Although I liked science-fiction in theory, and wrote it, I never watched or read science-fiction movies or books (with the exception of a long Star Wars phase in my childhood). However, since Christopher and I have been married – almost two years now! […]
http://simmeringmind.com/five-favorite-science-fiction-tv-shows/