Flashpoint is Biblical Cyberpunk set in the year 2036 and is the story of an alternative future where patriotism meets tyranny, the Patriot Act waxes Stalin-esque and the violence of terrorism has united the world. 2036 is the time of a central one-world government: the One-State. Fundamentalist terrorists are the One-State's only threat. This group includes Bible-believing Christians. When peacekeepers make a home-church bust in Ward-Six of the Chicago Metroplex, only Dave and Jen Williams evade capture. The siblings turn to the Body of Christ Underground for help, adopt street-names (Calamity Kid and e-girl) and slip between the cracks of the Chicago Metroplex. Calamity Kid and e-girl undergo technological re-formation that provides them with skills, knowledge and other abilities that allow them meet the gravest challenges facing Fundamentalist Christians and ultimately help them save their family, friends and neighbors before they're brainwashed, enslaved or worse by the One-State Neros.
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Flashpoint ought to come with an amusement park warning: exercise extreme caution while reading because it's an edge-of-your-seat, action-packed ride. -- The Guild Review, October 1, 2007
I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long, long time. Creed is a gusty writer. -- Yellow30 Sci-Fi, June 1, 2007
I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long, long time. Creed is a gusty writer. -- Yellow30 Sci-Fi, June 1, 2007
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<div>Frank Creed has worked for the past 10 years as an auto-worker for Subaru of Indiana Automotive. He had been writing fiction as a hobby for over 20 years, but after a severe head-on collision that left him disabled, suddenly his writing took on a life of its own. Creed has had short stories published in speculative fiction anthologies. </div>
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At the age seven, his divorced, working mother sent Frank to a creative writing program at the local library. From this tender age he knew that he wanted to be an author. In high school, Marsha Stewart, his creative writing teacher, coached him to a first-place tie at the UW Whitewater Literary contest, where hundreds of students from three states competed.
His thirty-some years of life since then have been filled with tough times and tragedies. He dropped out of college to elope. He worked no job that paid more than $8.50/hour until 1995. Divorced by twenty-two, he lived as a hedonist until his mid-twenties. It was then that a friend introduced him to the writings of Biblical Philosopher, Francis Schaeffer.
Frank had only been a reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, but Schaeffer's application of thesis-antithesis/ classical-reasoning to the sphere of morality changed Mr. Creed forever. His reading-list suddenly launched into theology, philosophy and history of western civilization.
It was in this year that his sister joined a Grotto of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. Her soul at stake, Mr. Creed entered into a written debate with her Satanic High Priest.
During this time, he volunteered an article to the Grotto's desktop published magazine, Diabolic Creation. After publication, he exchanged letters with readers who'd responded to his work.
In the years that followed, Creed debated a variety of worldviews on internet discussion boards, and has since then, found no credible counter to the Cosmological or Axiological arguments for the existence of God.
On May 9th of 1998, Frank Creed survived a high-speed head-on collision that broke him in half and induced a severe closed head injury. After living in a delusional state for two weeks, it was the doctors' opinion that with years of therapy, Mr. Creed would only recover sixty percent of his mental capacity.
Then his pastor visited.
They enjoyed a lucid conversation, and prayed. When Frank awoke the next morning his delusional state had been healed. A fake hip and pelvis likely dooms him to a wheelchair by age fifty, and his physical condition severely challenged him as an auto-worker.
Frank feels not only that the troubles in his life have refined him as a writer, but the closed head injury was a blessing in disguise. Before the auto-accident he'd begun his fantasy novella White Iron, which meandered and jammed, but, post-accident, everything flowed. The course of his life at that moment changed. He even married his editor!
"The influence of Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias and C. S. Lewis has been profound. How's this: collectively, I owe my salvation to these men. However, I have a twelfth grade education and am self-educated. It took re-reading for me to be able to grasp their Theological concepts. I looked again at Lewis' high prose fiction and understood my purpose in life."
His thirty-some years of life since then have been filled with tough times and tragedies. He dropped out of college to elope. He worked no job that paid more than $8.50/hour until 1995. Divorced by twenty-two, he lived as a hedonist until his mid-twenties. It was then that a friend introduced him to the writings of Biblical Philosopher, Francis Schaeffer.
Frank had only been a reader of fantasy and science fiction novels, but Schaeffer's application of thesis-antithesis/ classical-reasoning to the sphere of morality changed Mr. Creed forever. His reading-list suddenly launched into theology, philosophy and history of western civilization.
It was in this year that his sister joined a Grotto of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. Her soul at stake, Mr. Creed entered into a written debate with her Satanic High Priest.
During this time, he volunteered an article to the Grotto's desktop published magazine, Diabolic Creation. After publication, he exchanged letters with readers who'd responded to his work.
In the years that followed, Creed debated a variety of worldviews on internet discussion boards, and has since then, found no credible counter to the Cosmological or Axiological arguments for the existence of God.
On May 9th of 1998, Frank Creed survived a high-speed head-on collision that broke him in half and induced a severe closed head injury. After living in a delusional state for two weeks, it was the doctors' opinion that with years of therapy, Mr. Creed would only recover sixty percent of his mental capacity.
Then his pastor visited.
They enjoyed a lucid conversation, and prayed. When Frank awoke the next morning his delusional state had been healed. A fake hip and pelvis likely dooms him to a wheelchair by age fifty, and his physical condition severely challenged him as an auto-worker.
Frank feels not only that the troubles in his life have refined him as a writer, but the closed head injury was a blessing in disguise. Before the auto-accident he'd begun his fantasy novella White Iron, which meandered and jammed, but, post-accident, everything flowed. The course of his life at that moment changed. He even married his editor!
"The influence of Francis Schaeffer, Ravi Zacharias and C. S. Lewis has been profound. How's this: collectively, I owe my salvation to these men. However, I have a twelfth grade education and am self-educated. It took re-reading for me to be able to grasp their Theological concepts. I looked again at Lewis' high prose fiction and understood my purpose in life."
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Flashpoint delivers an action-packed, shocking look into a possible future while bringing to life spiritual truths in a battle between good and evil that is guaranteed to keep your head spinning. Jam-packed with spiritual truths and Mr. Creed's unique style of writing, combined with his geeky knowledge of techno-babble, and incredible kung-fu style fight scenes, this story will certainly keep your head spinning. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in end-times speculative fiction.
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I'm a self-admitted book snob, and really get into serious historical fiction... you know, the kind where the book has to be at least 900 pages long :)So when I began reading Flashpoint, which is so far out of the norm for me I was prepared to not like it. I was so wrong! I was completely hooked after the first page; the characters were so relatable and the story so engrossing that I whipped through the book in no time. The writing is excellent--I guess you could say I'm a Frank Creed fanatic now!
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Have you tried looking around for a Christian book written in the Science Fiction genre? To say they are few and far between would be an understatement. There is plenty of Christian Fiction out there, but not much of it falls in the science fiction category. It was my search for something that would fit that category that led me to this book. I was not disappointed in the least! As you can see from the five stars, I thought the book was excellent. It was fast-paced, captivating, and it had me trying to slow down my reading of it just so it would last longer. I particularly enjoyed the author's use of the word "re-formed". Perhaps a tip of the hat to the reformation? Maybe just a great way to say re-born, but I thought it was clever. I recommend this book to any believers looking for a great work of fiction with a very thorough portrayal of Scriptural truth. Great book.
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