E. K. Giles
| I spent two years as a minister in Austria, where I learned to speak German fluently. I also learned that rejection is unlikely to kill you, but it seems to build character at an alarming rate. After studying Illustration at Utah State University, I made the perfectly logical decision to move into satellite communications and distance learning technologies. That career path eventually led to the founding of Broadband Learning Corporation, a publicly traded company that grew into a multi-million-dollar enterprise and gave me the opportunity to travel to all fifty states and more than forty countries. Most of my writing happened at 35,000 feet, while folded into airline seats clearly designed for smaller species. During long flights, I wrote one-act plays and musicals for community theater, while quietly rehearsing dialogue, muttering character voices, and adjusting song lyrics under my breath. I was enormously entertained by my rehearsal, but probably made nearby passengers wonder if the flight crew should be alerted. Today, my writing blends speculative fiction and apologetics with ideas shaped by a lifetime spent in business, ministry, technology, travel, and the persistent suspicion that reality may be more than what meets the senses.I live in Riverton, Utah with my wife and I am the proud father of one son and two daughters. |
Some of my favorite books
Here are some of my book recommendations
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
I read this book at least 25 years ago. I still have a bright recollection of the grip this book had on me. I was unable to put it down until I had finished it. I started reading about 11:00 PM thinking I would read a chapter or two. I finished it about 6:00 AM and had to leave for work at 7:00.
The Screwtape Letters
CS Lewis
C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters is a masterful blend of speculative fiction and Christian apologetics and has been a significant inluence on my thinking. Through its satirical and thought-provoking narrative, the book explores profound theological and philosophical themes, making complex spiritual ideas accessible and engaging. prompting readers—whether believers or skeptics—to grapple with deeper existential and spiritual questions through immersive storytelling
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick -Through Captain Ahab’s relentless pursuit of the white whale, the novel explores philosophical and theological themes, questioning divine justice, free will, and the limits of human understanding. I love the challenge to Ismael’s worldview, and the invitation to readers to ponder the nature of reality, belief, and the unseen forces that shape human destiny.
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a tragic tale of fate, morality, and the clash between the physical and the spiritual. limitations of human understanding, the nature of good and evil, and the unseen forces that shape human lives. Disney never prepared me for the powerful fate of Esmerelda and Quasimodo.