Theodore Beale

Theodore Beale
Theodore Beale
Born	Theodore Beale c.1968.
Other names	Vox Day
Education	Bucknell University
Known for	Writer, computer game designer, musician
Religion	Southern Baptist
Parents	Robert Beale
Website
http://voxday.net

Theodore Beale, born c.1968, is an American writer, sometimes using the pseudonym Vox Day. He has also designed computer games and been a musician.

Biography

Beale graduated from Bucknell University in 1990. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a member of the electronic band Psykosonik,^{[citation needed]} which recorded two Billboard Top 40 club play hits.

In 1993, together with Andrew Lunstad, he founded a video game company named Fenris Wolf. They developed the game Rebel Moon in 1995, and its sequel Rebel Moon Rising in 1997. Fenris Wolf was developing two games, Rebel Moon Revolution and Traveller for the Sega Dreamcast, when it closed in 1999 after a legal dispute with its retail publisher GT Interactive. In 1999, under the name Eternal Warriors, Beale and Lunstad released The War in Heaven, a biblical video game published by Valusoft and distributed by GT Interactive.

In 2000, Beale published The War in Heaven, the first in a series of fantasy novels with a religious theme, entitled The Eternal Warriors which are "about good versus evil among angels, fallen and otherwise". The third in the series was published in 2006.

Beale is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA),^{[citation needed]} and was a member of the Nebula Award Novel Jury in 2007. He is a contributor to the Black Gate blog,^{[citation needed]} and under his pseudonym Vox Day, he wrote a weekly video game review column and other features for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He presently uses the pen name for a conservative blog and a weekly WorldNetDaily opinion column, and in the past was nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, as Vox Day, he published The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, a "nontheological" book devoted to criticizing the arguments presented in various books by atheist authors Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michel Onfray. The book was named a 2007 Christmas recommendation by the conservative magazine, National Review. Beale's 2008 book, Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy, was nominated for an American Christian Fiction Writers award in 2009.

Beale holds the design patent for WarMouse, a computer mouse with 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, a thumb-operated joystick, and 512k of memory.

Beale is the son of entrepreneur Robert Beale. He has three children; his eldest son Christopher published a novel at the age of 7.

Views

Beale has been described as a "fundamentalist Southern Baptist," but at least one of his theological views (namely Open Theism) fall outside of Southern Baptist theology. Media Matters has described one of his WND columns as a "racially charged rant" showing hostility to minorities, and has noted the fact that in another column, he compares immigration by Mexicans and others to the US with the Nazi invasion of Europe.

Discography

• Psykosonik (1993) ASIN B000003RFN
• Silicon Jesus (1993) ASIN B000003RID
• Welcome to My Mind (1993) ASIN B000003RIF
• Details Magazine Music Matters Volume 4 (1992) ASIN B000BJBNDS
• Unlearn (1995) ASIN B000003RGH
• Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years (1994) ASIN: B000003RGU
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1997) ASIN B000000GU2
• Sunyata (2003) ASIN B0001ARVWY

Video games

Game Name	First Released	System Name(s)	Beale's Role(s)
X-Kaliber 2097	1994	SNES	Music (Psykosonik)
CyClones	1994	DOS	Audio
Rebel Moon	1995	DOS	Game Designer, Co-Producer
Rebel Moon Rising	1997	DOS	Game Designer, Co-Producer
Rebel Moon Revolution	Planned 1999	Windows	Game Designer, Co-Producer
The War in Heaven	1999	Windows	Game Designer
Traveller	Planned 2000	Sega Dreamcast	Game Designer
Hot Dish	2007	Windows	Game Designer

Published writings

As sole author:

• The War in Heaven (2000) ISBN 978-0743453448
• The World in Shadow (2002) ISBN 978-0671024543
• The Wrath of Angels (2006) ISBN 978-0743469821
• The Irrational Atheist (2008) ISBN 978-1933771366
• Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy (2008) ISBN 978-0982104927
• The Return of the Great Depression (2009) ISBN 978-1935071181

As a contributor:

• Rebel Moon (1996), Bruce Bethke. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0671002367
• The Anthology at the End of the Universe (2004), Glen Yeffeth (editor). BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1932100563
• Archangels: The Fall (2005) ISBN 978-1887814157
• Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth, and Religion in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles (2005), Shanna Caughey (editor). BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1932100631
• Halo Effect (2007), Glenn Yeffeth (editor). BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1933771113
• You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (2008), Chuck Palahniuk (Foreword), Read Mercer Schuchardt (Editor). BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1933771526
• Stupefying Stories October 2011 (2011), Bruce Bethke (Editor). Rampant Loon Press. ASIN B005T5B9YC

External links

Writing

• Vox Day
• Vox Popoli
• Archive at WorldNetDaily
• Black Gate Magazine - Adventures in Fantasy Literature
• Theodore Beale at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Video games

• Theodore Beale at Allgame
• Theodore Beale at the Internet Movie Database
• Game bibliography at MobyGames

Other

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Net Ring site
• Theodore Beale on Twitter