Jerry Rogers

So, a little about me. I am an author of supernatural mystery, religious surrealism, and science fiction. Over the past decade, I produced a body of work, including an immersive end-of-times trilogy, an intergalactic noir novel about assassins and political intrigue, a comedic novella called “The Legend of the Salad Traveler,” and collaborating on a fantasy novel based on the seven deadly sins,

Despite its fantastical, often action-packed plotting, my fiction remains grounded in two fields that our culture often pits against one another: sincere theology and rigorous science. My most ambitious work to-date, The Fallen and The Elect Trilogy is set amidst a post-rapture world. Both good and malign angels are making mysterious appearances, an unknown scientific work is being fostered by an alliance between the Catholic Church and a biotech corporation, and more and more humans continue to disappear and die, perhaps at the hands of corrupt angels.

The diverse threads of my work fan out from varying life. For over 35 years, I served in the Air Force and Air National Guard, working in law enforcement and information technology, thus getting to know state-of-the-art telecommunication and data-communication systems. I also worked for a number of years at two post-production film companies in Hollywood.

For work and for pleasure, I've traveled to each of the contiguous forty-eight states, often by train, and to both Southwest Asia and Europe. This has inspired the international, and sometimes intergalactic, settings of my work. More recently, I retired into a pastoral role at a small church and became an independent biblical and scientific researcher. One of his greatest joys is researching and teaching little-known biblical histories and using these to elucidate exciting new scientific discoveries for the congregation. In this sense, my pastoral work is much like most of my fiction, in that both perform the unique task of bridging science and religion. Intensive biblical, theological, and scientific research are themselves major themes in The Fallen and the Elect Trilogy, but one can see Rogers' grounding in Christian beliefs even in the less overtly religious House of Xrion, which is nonetheless a deeply spiritual book about conscience, love, and healing.

I strive to work and explore how technology, science, and Christianity all remain crucial to the human existence amidst the chaos of the early twenty-first century, and by blending religion and science fiction, work to develop an original style of religious surrealism that can help readers keep their bearings within our rapidly and dauntingly changing times.