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Can apocalyptic fiction be hopeful? You bet your "Mad Max" style boots it can! Read on to find out how.

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We’ve looked at what “Hopeful” means. Now, what about “Apocalyptic”?

Whether we want to admit it or not, this present age has an expiration date. It will wrap up at some point and I’m voting for sooner rather than later. Is this the “End Of The World”? No!

It’s just the “End of the world as we know it.” (Cue music!)

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It”

While this may be a surprise to some, or even – perhaps – many, this timeframe on planet Earth doesn’t continue indefinitely. Depending on where you stand or sit or basically reside, this is either good news or bad news.

If you live in the “This world is all we’ve got.  It begins and ends here.” space, then this news can be terrifying, traumatizing, or numbing if you’re unable to wrap your mind around the possibility of it not continuing in the way we’re familiar with currently.

“For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you.” Isaiah 60:2

As the darkness gets deeper, the Apocalyptic seems to overshadow the Hopeful.  However…

“Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.”

― C.S. Lewis

And…

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” —  C S Lewis

As the Apocalyptic becomes the Everyday, where your Hope – with a capital “H” is found becomes more and more crucial. If your hope is in yourself, what you own, who you know, where you live, or anything that is merely temporal, it can be …. Taken ….Away .

Anchor ⚓ yourself in what can never be taken away.

“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us…”  Hebrews 6:19-20a

And, if you would like a book to help jumpstart that process, “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis is an excellent start.

C. S. Lewis

Mere Christianity on Amazon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hopeful Apocalyptic Sci-fi may seem like an oxymoron, but it's not.When the genre that your books fit into doesn't exist (to your knowledge), it's time to create it!So much of Apocalyptic fiction is dystopian. The world has been wrecked, or the planet where humans had to flee to because the Earth got wrecked is also […]

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Hopeful Apocalyptic Sci-fi may seem like an oxymoron, but it’s not.

When the genre that your books fit into doesn’t exist (to your knowledge), it’s time to create it!

So much of Apocalyptic fiction is dystopian. The world has been wrecked, or the planet where humans had to flee to because the Earth got wrecked is also on the verge of being wrecked, or the spaceship where people are fleeing Earth (because the Earth got wrecked) is on the verge of being wrecked by an asteroid, alien vessel or ___________ (fill in the blank)…

While the stories are often gripping, they are also grim. Dire circumstances bring heightened tension, which is usually the goal and makes for page-turning drama, but I have felt drained, sad, or nearly hopeless after reading some of these tales.

And, truly, our real world has gone nutty, so reading terrifying scenarios can help a person look at the craziness around them and lead them to say, “Well, it’s not THAT bad yet!”

There, however, is a great deal of hope to be had even as the world is crashing down around us.  It’s all dependent on where you place your hope. Which is largely what “Hopeful Apocalyptic Sci-fi” is about.

Each of the books in the Quantum Spacewalker series has a different facet of hope. We’ll look at some of those in the days to come.

Get your “Hope” on!

“The hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,”  Hebrews 6:19

Check out Quantum Spacewalker: Quinn’s Quest

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