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People keep asking me, “How long did it take you to
write Worlds Apart?”
I wish I had an exact answer, but in truth, this has
been a life-long project. I came up with Ellingsworth
and Caraff while still a teenager, started working on
story ideas for them in my late teens to early
twenties, and finally wrote the rough draft of this
book when I was twenty-six or twenty-seven.
Subsequent drafts resulted in a very long book--too
long to sell as a first-time writer.
I shelved the whole thing and went back to college
full-time at age 29, picking it back up sporadically
in the late ‘90s. It needed some editing,
fine-tuning, and even some rewriting, but I believed
it still had potential. Not only that, I believed it
was something God wanted me to do. I supposed all
Christian writers say that, but it is nevertheless
true. That’s why I kept at it.
Now, some may be against Christian science-fiction,
and I understand that. God hasn’t brought up the
subject of alien life, so what business do we have
exploring such a notion? Well, my answer is that
science explores the notion, secular writers explore
the notion, secular filmmakers explore the notion, and
none of these are seeking to glorify God--indeed, many
wish to negate Him. If they can’t fit Him into their
box, they toss Him aside.
I believe in a God who is more than we can imagine,
who cannot be conveniently boxed, who is even much
more than what He has yet revealed to us. It seems to
me the time has come for the Christian community to
comment on the possibility of life out there as within
the realm of God’s power, control, and sovereignty.
Do I recommend running willy-nilly into all kinds of
non-scriptural areas, using creative license to say
God is something He is not? NO! I have worked very
hard to keep my creativity within the bounds of what
God has revealed about Himself through scripture.
It is my hope and prayer that Worlds Apart will cause
people to think about the God who is the source of
every scientific fact known to man, and countless more
yet unknown, the source of every natural law, every
spiritual law, and the One who holds everything
together.
J. C. Miller
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