One week to go!

In the mean time, we have made some very slight tweaks to our submission guidelines regarding the kind of stories we're looking for. Read on and see the updated guidelines at the link below. 🧵

https://twitter.com/SilenceStarsong/status/1674447647380320256

Change #1

Original: "Stories must have a clear, Christian (i.e., Nicene) worldview."

Revised: "Stories must have their foundation in a clear, Christian (i.e., Nicene) worldview."

We wanted to make this consistent with another part of the guidelines where ...

🧵 THREAD 🧵

“Let me entreat my readers, once for all, to draw their ideas of human nature from the Bible, and not from novels.” - J.C. Ryle, “Practical Religion” So wrote John Charles Ryle, who was born in 1816 and served as the the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool from 1880 until a few months before his death in June 1900.

#scifi has problems but Silence and Starsong wants to be part of the solution.

C.S.Lewis wrote that there was one #scifi “sub-species in which alone I myself am greatly interested” found in “American magazines bear[ing] the significant title Fantasy and Science Fiction.” (1/4) In those pages readers will find “not only stories about space-travel but stories about gods, ghosts, ghouls, demons, fairies, monsters, etc.”

Eschewing “hard science fiction,” Lewis wrote that he was “inclined to think that frankly supernatural methods are best.” (2/4)

What were “penny dreadfuls” and what do they have to do with G.K. Chesterton? And what does any of THAT have to do with reading and writing good, enjoyable stories on the internet today?

We're so very glad you asked!

🧵 A thread 🧵 In Merry Olde England, as you may be aware, there was a time when there were FAR more crimes (e.g., theft of cows, horses, or sheep) that carried the death penalty than do today in pretty much any country anywhere.