Marilyn W Lathrop

My love affair with stars and space began during my childhood living on a small farm near Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. In those days yard lights did not dot the rural landscape with the same kind of ubiquitous presence they do today. It was possible to go outside and really see the night sky in much the same way ancient folk once did. Add sonic booms, fighter jets, helicopters and lumbering cargo planes and it's a potent mix for sci fi dreams.

The first science fiction works that captured my imagination were "The Tripods Trilogy" by John Christopher and "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline Le'Engle. Both are stories of good versus evil on grand scales--no theme is more pertinent to human beings than this. In High School I read Herbert, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury and other popular sci fi authors. Of those, "Dune" has been the greatest influence in my writing life.

Today an increasingly atheistic world view permeates the sci fi world. I am not aware of any great Christian science fiction since CS Lewis' "Space Trilogy." Maybe this partly due to the fact that too many Christians have decided that science is anti-God, this despite the fact that the founders of science as we know it were mostly Christian: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton...the list is quite long.

The book I wanted to read didn't seem to exist outside a handful of science fiction works (I'm saying handful on the theoretical possibility there are some I'm not aware of; I know of only two) that approach science fiction from a Christian world view. The only solution to this problem was to write the book I want to read.

Initially the "Over the Edge" series was written purely as an escape from reality for me, but every writer comes to the point where his fiction must have readers. After I saw how "Over the Edge" could reflect a Christian world view, I launched "Over the Edge" as a serious pursuit instead of a recreational pastime.

The first book in the series has been released and frankly, it's not very good. It's titled: "Over the Edge: The Beginning." I'm rewriting it while releasing stand alone novels from the same universe. The first of these stand alone releases is: "Give Her the Stars," a romance in both the modern and classical sense--modern in that it is the story of girl meets boy, falls in love and gets married and classical in the sense that it is the story of a chivalrous man willing to give his all to protect his lady.

"Love From the Stars" is coming soon.

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Marilyn W Lathrop