I’m a sci-fi writer (Lucas Kitchen) so this subject interests me on more than just an academic level. There is a book that has been out for a while now that has gotten some really interesting response. It appeals to me for a lot of reasons but one that is not lost on me is all the fantastic things that some of the characters can do.
In this book, there are characters that fly, appear and disappear, travel in time, do battle with dark powers, take control over the forces of nature, predict the future, cure incurable diseases, fight off alien possession/invasion, and bring people back from the dead, to name just a few.
There are a number of interesting things about this book. First, it’s not really a book. I mean it is in the sense that you can find it in book format, but it’s more like a series of short stories by different authors that were compiled later. It might be more accurate to think of it like a short story anthology.