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Christian Cyberpunk Is a Thing
Cyberpunk is science fiction category typically in a high tech dystopian setting.
Most Cyberpunk fans scoff at the idea of Christians writing Cyberpunk. Christians are supposedly against all science, backwards, etc. Only secular atheists should be able to write scifi. Christians belong in a church. Those who claim to be cyberpunk fans become irrationally close-minded, intolerant, hostile and insulting to conservatives.
This anti-Christian liberal view is laughable. How scientific is it for a person to claim they are a sex when their chromosomes belong to another sex? How scientific is it to deny that life begins at conception? Where is the science in evolution that can not explain the origin of the universe? Apply Darwinian evolution to other fields such as psychology and you see that it is based upon Freud, who was a complete fraud.
But secular minds still cannot conceive of how Christians can be forward thinking. Christians want the old way of parenting, of running a government, of running a household or business . . . only because they worked a lot better than the current disastrous complete failures in liberal social experimentation. However, that does not mean that Christians are against progress and innovation.
The main reason there is a definite place for Christians in Science Fiction is because of Man's failures when they stray from God, and the predictable nature of those future failed attempts to fix the failures. In fact, because of this, a conservative viewpoint is much more suited to writing science fiction. Fantasy, on the other hand, would seem to be the domain of the liberal, whether in fiction, or non-fiction.
Fiction works when things in the story go wrong, not when it is all unicorns and rainbows. It would be pretty tough to come up with some tension where Christians are causing problems to the righteous atheists, although scifi writers like to try going that way with it. That is why scifi writers continually use belligerent aliens or zombies as antagonists.
My novel; The Lucid Series: Android Uprising https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077QFKNPL
is set in a dystopian cyberpunk universe. It is hard-hitting to the point of being sermonized. You won't find much like it out there. It was written with definite Christian themes. It is a clean-language book with violent action.
. . . In a dystopian cyberpunk 2215, the former US was fragmented into multiple small countries.
. . . People in the UN proxy state of Homeland are controlled by psychotropic drugs, corrupted education, propaganda and oppressive laws.
In this story . . .
. . . Computer hacking clones are trying to get rich no matter what they have to do.
. . . A garbage collector hates everything about his life and goes rogue.
. . . An entire strain of genetically-engineered children is to be culled because of an imperfection.
. . . A tyrannical government robot unit is led by a ruthless being hiding behind a synthetic presence.
. . . A clone couple is living off of the grid and expecting an illegal child.
. . . A series of androids vow to fight for the truth even to the point of war.
. . . And a boy asks, “Is God real?”
The Lucid series is a unique clean-language novel that has heavy hitting, brutally honest edgy Christian themes and some graphic action.
Most Cyberpunk fans scoff at the idea of Christians writing Cyberpunk. Christians are supposedly against all science, backwards, etc. Only secular atheists should be able to write scifi. Christians belong in a church. Those who claim to be cyberpunk fans become irrationally close-minded, intolerant, hostile and insulting to conservatives.
This anti-Christian liberal view is laughable. How scientific is it for a person to claim they are a sex when their chromosomes belong to another sex? How scientific is it to deny that life begins at conception? Where is the science in evolution that can not explain the origin of the universe? Apply Darwinian evolution to other fields such as psychology and you see that it is based upon Freud, who was a complete fraud.
But secular minds still cannot conceive of how Christians can be forward thinking. Christians want the old way of parenting, of running a government, of running a household or business . . . only because they worked a lot better than the current disastrous complete failures in liberal social experimentation. However, that does not mean that Christians are against progress and innovation.
The main reason there is a definite place for Christians in Science Fiction is because of Man's failures when they stray from God, and the predictable nature of those future failed attempts to fix the failures. In fact, because of this, a conservative viewpoint is much more suited to writing science fiction. Fantasy, on the other hand, would seem to be the domain of the liberal, whether in fiction, or non-fiction.
Fiction works when things in the story go wrong, not when it is all unicorns and rainbows. It would be pretty tough to come up with some tension where Christians are causing problems to the righteous atheists, although scifi writers like to try going that way with it. That is why scifi writers continually use belligerent aliens or zombies as antagonists.
My novel; The Lucid Series: Android Uprising https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077QFKNPL
is set in a dystopian cyberpunk universe. It is hard-hitting to the point of being sermonized. You won't find much like it out there. It was written with definite Christian themes. It is a clean-language book with violent action.
. . . In a dystopian cyberpunk 2215, the former US was fragmented into multiple small countries.
. . . People in the UN proxy state of Homeland are controlled by psychotropic drugs, corrupted education, propaganda and oppressive laws.
In this story . . .
. . . Computer hacking clones are trying to get rich no matter what they have to do.
. . . A garbage collector hates everything about his life and goes rogue.
. . . An entire strain of genetically-engineered children is to be culled because of an imperfection.
. . . A tyrannical government robot unit is led by a ruthless being hiding behind a synthetic presence.
. . . A clone couple is living off of the grid and expecting an illegal child.
. . . A series of androids vow to fight for the truth even to the point of war.
. . . And a boy asks, “Is God real?”
The Lucid series is a unique clean-language novel that has heavy hitting, brutally honest edgy Christian themes and some graphic action.
Christian Authors and Readers: How "Christian" Are Your Books?
Modern pop culture has an immense influence upon people’s lives because they spend so much time immersing themselves in it. But what about the content of this immersion? Does it bring people closer to God, or just occupy their attention?
Christian fiction is a small segment of today’s popular culture. What is the goal of it? Is it to entertain and edify Christians? Is it to subtly nudge people into considering giving more of their lives to God? Probably yes to both, but perhaps a greater goal should be considered.
What about the purpose of Christian fiction to leading people to Christ? Shouldn’t that be a primary objective? We writers are told in every book about writing fiction that we should never preach in our writing. Why not? It is true that many will be turned off by preachy fiction, but what if some readers are not? Are we Christian authors willing to risk a writing career to help bring a needy soul to Christ?
If you write Christian fantasy, is the Christian theme of your story so buried in allegory that Christ cannot be seen without someone writing anther book about it? Will your stories make the reader want to read the Bible, or play Dungeons and Dragons? Will your stories make the reader remember your name, or the name of Jesus?
If you write Christian romance, is the goal or the protagonist to fall in love with the man, or with Jesus? Is there a basis for the claim that your romance novel is Christian?
Christian characters should be a lot more than just nice. So many already have the wrong idea that Christians are to just be nice and never say anything disagreeable. Just because a book does not have vulgarity does not make it Christian. Nice is not the same as good. Read more about this here for free.
Like most men, I wouldn’t read much Christian romance. But here are a couple of Christian cyberpunk books that you can trust to be thought provoking to someone pondering spiritual matters and presented with the Christian option. The Lucid Series: Android Uprising and The Last Christian. Both of these would make a thoughtful gift.
Christian fiction is a small segment of today’s popular culture. What is the goal of it? Is it to entertain and edify Christians? Is it to subtly nudge people into considering giving more of their lives to God? Probably yes to both, but perhaps a greater goal should be considered.
What about the purpose of Christian fiction to leading people to Christ? Shouldn’t that be a primary objective? We writers are told in every book about writing fiction that we should never preach in our writing. Why not? It is true that many will be turned off by preachy fiction, but what if some readers are not? Are we Christian authors willing to risk a writing career to help bring a needy soul to Christ?
If you write Christian fantasy, is the Christian theme of your story so buried in allegory that Christ cannot be seen without someone writing anther book about it? Will your stories make the reader want to read the Bible, or play Dungeons and Dragons? Will your stories make the reader remember your name, or the name of Jesus?
If you write Christian romance, is the goal or the protagonist to fall in love with the man, or with Jesus? Is there a basis for the claim that your romance novel is Christian?
Christian characters should be a lot more than just nice. So many already have the wrong idea that Christians are to just be nice and never say anything disagreeable. Just because a book does not have vulgarity does not make it Christian. Nice is not the same as good. Read more about this here for free.
Like most men, I wouldn’t read much Christian romance. But here are a couple of Christian cyberpunk books that you can trust to be thought provoking to someone pondering spiritual matters and presented with the Christian option. The Lucid Series: Android Uprising and The Last Christian. Both of these would make a thoughtful gift.
Christian Cyberpunk Evangelism
Cyberpunk is the science fiction world of androids, clones, cyborgs, synthetic presences, nanites, virtual reality simulations, or any other such high tech thing that affects Man's reality.
I contend that cyberpunk is the perfect vehicle to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our world where the populace spends its time consuming the far-out products of pop culture.
Why?
1. Cyberpunk is the most relatable speculative fiction sub-genre. It is more relatable and realistic than space travel or any fantasy. Unlike Amish romances, It is something men may read.
2. It is easy to believe that a cyberpunk setting, in its high tech attempts to make a perfect world, will have severe problems resulting in dystopia. We know from our current situation (sexual identity, same-sex marriage, abortion, etc.) that Man typically messes things up.
I have spent a lifetime reading Christian Apologetics, and I believe that I have written a compelling case for the Gospel in my novel: The Lucid Series: Android Uprising. My goal is to win souls with it.
So I prayerfully request the help of Christians with:
1. Please pray for my work like you would any other missionary.
2. Please get my book and do a review on it. Reviews are what keeps the book in the front of the lists. My book is competing against many books in the "Christian Fiction" category that never even mention Jesus. My e-book is priced as low as is allowable on Kindle. But to show you my sincerity, I will gift you a copy if you will review it.
3. Consider giving paperback copies as gifts, especially to young adult readers.
4. Consider writing your own Christian cyberpunk novel. Please give me lots of "competition" for winning souls.
5. Join the Goodreads Christian Cyberpunk Books Club in Goodreads for information on more titles in this sub-genre.
The Lucid Series: Android Uprising
Den Warren
I contend that cyberpunk is the perfect vehicle to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our world where the populace spends its time consuming the far-out products of pop culture.
Why?
1. Cyberpunk is the most relatable speculative fiction sub-genre. It is more relatable and realistic than space travel or any fantasy. Unlike Amish romances, It is something men may read.
2. It is easy to believe that a cyberpunk setting, in its high tech attempts to make a perfect world, will have severe problems resulting in dystopia. We know from our current situation (sexual identity, same-sex marriage, abortion, etc.) that Man typically messes things up.
I have spent a lifetime reading Christian Apologetics, and I believe that I have written a compelling case for the Gospel in my novel: The Lucid Series: Android Uprising. My goal is to win souls with it.
So I prayerfully request the help of Christians with:
1. Please pray for my work like you would any other missionary.
2. Please get my book and do a review on it. Reviews are what keeps the book in the front of the lists. My book is competing against many books in the "Christian Fiction" category that never even mention Jesus. My e-book is priced as low as is allowable on Kindle. But to show you my sincerity, I will gift you a copy if you will review it.
3. Consider giving paperback copies as gifts, especially to young adult readers.
4. Consider writing your own Christian cyberpunk novel. Please give me lots of "competition" for winning souls.
5. Join the Goodreads Christian Cyberpunk Books Club in Goodreads for information on more titles in this sub-genre.
The Lucid Series: Android Uprising
Den Warren
