S Dorman: 21 books

Named Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE Winnter of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association Winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize Winner of the 2014 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Jacob S. Dorman offers new insights into the rise...

Scrolling down this page will bring you to links with various file-types of samples for PILOT OF VARYING LIGHTS. This is the collection of early speculative fiction by S. Dorman, author of Gott'im's Monster, The God's Cycle, and Fantastic Travelogue: Mark Twain and CS Lewis Talk Things Over in The...

DuOPolis is unconventional speculative fiction about three young "gangs" living in the same area in alternate times. By an aberration in Time they meet unexpectedly in the 21st century neighborhood of FivePoints and engage with one another to untie the knot of Time. These teenagers are from circa...

How the circuses, dance halls, and midways of the Gilded Age provided the cultural ferment and freedom that led to the creation of the Black Muslim movement in America. Beyond the customary narratives of Gilded Age America lies a world of circuses, Wild West shows, and midways populated by...

The Putnam Tradition by S. Dorman.

The Essays are comprised in three sections. The first is "neophyte papers." These four essays were written in the mid 1980s when I began thinking about CS Lewis on paper in my limited way. The second section, "Familiarizing Papers," contains two essays written for the course in...

Scrolling down this page will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of FANTASTIC TRAVELOGUE. Jack Lewis—here as a fictive character experiencing a state of phantasm—is not the great rhetorical craftsman out to convince through argument. In fact, he is discovering that argument is...

The boys and girls of the FivePoints 2017 neighborhood gang are transformed into dark matter, slipping into an alternate universe. Adventures ensue, including ghostly encounters with kids of the alternate SiXPointz neighborhood. The 2017 gang help to uncover secrets of crime and science in the city...

What is Five Points Akropolis? Scrolling down this page will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of the novel. An alternate future? An insecure past? Another present made of dense woodlands and waterways ... or of streets and buildings and crowds? Are its populations living...

S. Dorman began Maine Metaphor with The Green and Blue House. She continued her explorations in the Western Mountains of Maine, studying Maine's characteristic ways and natural realm, possessing the experience, studies, and journaling of rural life and creation. And she wanted to learn about the character...

What is it about that word? Aroostook. "The County," they call it in Maine. She sat in the Ohio kitchen with books spread out, having just read a word. She said the word aloud. Someone little called. A door slammed. She stood automatically, walked a step, reached up and got out peanut butter....

Scrolling down this page will bring you to links for sampling various file-types of the novel. God's Wilderness comprises the last two books of The God's Cycle. —Mystery Gottheim— begins God's Wilderness, fourth book of The God's Cycle, in which the Gothic New England landscape comes alive...

See links for sampling various file-types of the novel. Gott'im's Monster is coming-of-age speculative fiction for teenagers with heads. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gott'im's Monster is part of The God's Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808 and...

GOTT'IM'S MONSTER 1808 is coming-of-age speculative fiction for teenagers. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gott'im's Monster is part of The God's Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, The God's Cycle moves...