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Just finished God's Demon and working my way through Heart of Hell, any stuff that's similar? Not specifically about hell, just settings that are turbo fucked in a visceral way. Prince of Nothing is very bleak for example but it still takes place in a pretty normal world, I want that weird shit.

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I'm posting this again
Give me some fantasy (or scifi) books in which explicitly Christian cosmology is real and immanent.
I read Gene Wolfe's Wizard Knight and liked it though it was a tad subtle. I've also read Silmarillion and Narnia and I have plans to read CS Lewis' space trilogy as well.
Somebody suggested that Between Two Evils book but that actually winds up edgier and more depressing than Wayne Barlowe's books that are literally set in Hell.

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Give me some fantasy books in which explicitly Christian cosmology is real and immanent.
I read Gene Wolfe's Wizard Knight and that was pretty good. Silmarillion and Narnia books go without saying. What else is out there, excluding pic related?

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This is a GOOD BOOK

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Somebody in last thread who asked about Norse mythology got me thinking: are there any fantasy/scifi books out there about Christian "mythology"? I hesitate to use the word but I can't figure out a more suitable one for what I mean: a story involving the real presence of supernatural elements found in Christian cosmology. I don't mean stories with allegory or allusion, no matter how obvious, like Lord of the Rings or Chronicles of Narnia; nor do I mean sanctimonious (and heretical) American evangelical schlock about a so-called "rapture"; or the saccharine guardian angel business of fiction in the 1930s and 40s. No, I mean a setting where the Christian conception of capital-G God not only incontrovertibly exists but has a meaningful impact on the setting, and concerns themes of Christian philosophy and theology.

The closest examples to this that I have read/possess are God's Demon and The Heart of Hell by Wayne Barlowe, Perelandra by C. S. Lewis, and Many Waters by Madeleine l'Engle.

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fedoratipper Wayne Barlowe made a better Christian novel series than most people who aren't named C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton

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Has /lit/ ever read any of Wayne Barlowes work?

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