Robby Miller

The question "Where Are the Atheist Fiction Books?" has been asked by Hemant Mehta of Patheos.com. We need more of the genre: Fant-sci Fiction (fantasy rooted in footnotes).

Death and other Taxes," by Robby Miller adds to the works of Phillip Pullman, Douglas Adams and Gene Roddenberry. It is an allegory encouraging readers to let go of the human compulsion to want to see their lost loved ones again. It's a reinvention of the 'life after death' story intended to gently help people accept that there is no life after death - originally composed as an answer to everyone who tried but failed to console me by saying my teenage son was still there somewhere. Kirkus Reviews sums it up with the words, "In his often disturbing yet oddly endearing first novel, Miller creates a kind of “Jabberwocky”-style story in which fans of strange, Seuss-ian characters... will feel right at home... Yet the story is so whimsically told that the Through the Looking Glass frivolity starts to make a strange sort of sense." https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-miller/death-and-other-taxes/

Avery Hurt, a full-time freelance writer who specializes in literature, health and science journalism says, "This book seemed to me like The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy meets Dante... Joan Didion wrote that “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Miller is telling himself, and us, stories to help us deal with death. As [the boy] eventually comes to accept and understand his death, the reader comes to accept the deaths of us all." http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/blog/2013/10/review-death-and-other-taxes-by...

This fant-sci novel fills a niche between atheist apologetics and pure imagination. It is designed to question popular notions of eternity through telling a new story in order for us to to live with the reality of Death - who, incidentally, is characterised as you've never seen her before. - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/316200#longDescription… (más)