"Every five hundred years, the Church cleans out its attic and has a giant rummage sale." This quote continues to appear in conversations about changes in the Church. What else does Phyllis Tickle have to say and how have the ideas in this 2008 phenomenon held up?
A retelling of the Aladdin story, complete with wish-granting Jinn, set in a cyberpunk world inspired by southeast Asia sounded like a brilliant idea. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport isn't a perfect book by any stretch, but it gets some things right and they're a lot of fun.
