Wonderful news, Eclectic Orthodoxy readers! Our own Brian Moore has written a fantasy tale, Beneath the Silent Heavens, and it’s just been published. Here’s a description of the novel from the publisher:
Beneath the Silent Heavens reimagines the story of the Flood and the Ark. Enter a world aglitter with the brightness of decadence: generations asunder, forgotten wisdom lapsing into legend, Earth plagued by monstrous otherworldly evil yet seeming to wish its own doom. Here is tale-telling pageantry: epochs (our own among them) whirled together, populated with patriarchs and hipsters, artists, intellectuals, peasants, high rhetoric and hearthside banter, words of passion and of skepticism, and animals who still have the way of speech—all against the backdrop of Noe (the last who hears the animal speech) struggling together with his family against suspicion and violence. With its eerie atmosphere of doom pervading the many times and customs (human or animal) on display, Beneath the Silent Heavens offers a glimpse of “wonder before the sheer prodigality of creation,” a vision of creation as ecological as it is Eucharistic. It is a story of timeless disaster and hope that will delight readers of The Neverending Story and Till We Have Faces.
Please buy and read Beneath the Silent Heavens, and if you enjoy it, recommend it to your friends. Let’s put Brian on the New York Times’ bestseller list! (Okay, maybe that’s a stretch, but heck, why not?) EO hopes to publish a review of Brian’s novel sometime in the months ahead.
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Wow, sounds fantastic! Putting it on my TBR list.
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Congratulations Brian!
Just put in my Amazon order, eagerly awaiting delivery.
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Congrats Brian! God bless and expand your work.
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Thank you, my friends.
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Brian, you’re book has already broken the top ten in Amazon’s “Christian Fantasy” category!
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And the top 20 in the Best Sellers in Religious Science Fiction & Fantasy!
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It must be the 20,000 copies that you are I jointly ordered yesterday. 😉
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Remarkable. When EO speaks, folks listen . . .
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Just ordered, congratulations Brian, I’m glad it’s doing so well. I hope you have great success as an author :- ) .
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I’d be remiss not to thank Jonathan Monroe Geltner for his help getting BTSH to become a full-fledged book. I doubt it happens without his aid. He’s a gifted artist in his own right. Getting the story before Angelico, encouragement and an insightful reading of the ms were among many thoughtful efforts.
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Brian, congratulations on getting published, it’s quite a feat. My copy comes on Tuesday, can’t wait to read it.
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My copy arrived yesterday! I am moving it to the top of my reading list (well, nearly the top). 🙂
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Glad to see the book published, Brian. Angelico has done a handsome job with it.
Brian’s fans: Please consider, if you have time, leaving a review of _Beneath the Silent Heavens_ on Amazon. For better or worse, and regardless of whether you purchase the book through the online seller, Amazon ratings are now crucial for authors, especially first-timers and books from independent presses. It doesn’t have to be much, just a sentence or two.
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Having no other venue, I would like to share a word of gratitude to Brian. The reading lists of my public school education led me to despair that no good literature would be written again in English, especially not in the United States. Thank you for changing my mind. Thank you for sharing this beautiful project with us. Thank you for providing something enduring and challenging that I can share with my five children when they are older – a glorious vision of creation and hope, rich and lovely and true. Thank you for giving us, in the same literary space, both our patriarch Noe and our native Texas crape myrtles and grackles. The children will be delighted to consider these mundane things as wondrous a part of creation as ravens and doves and goferwood. Thank you for writing for us in the vernacular without a whiff of the vulgar. Thank you for the fruitful meditations of the sixth and seventh chapters which swirl on in my heart and mind. It was a strange and moving experience to finish the book on Saturday then stand in the nave on Sunday, gazing on Christ and the Theotokos, Noe beside me, Ham within me, and Shem raising before us the Mysteries. Thank you, Brian. May He bless your pursuits ever further.
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I am immensely moved by your kind words, David. Thank you.
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If I might ask a small favor, David. If you could copy paste your thoughts which have their own lyrical music as a review on Amazon, I would appreciate it. As Jonathan points out above, reviews on Amazon are very helpful and as of now BTSH does not have any.
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