Books by the Author:  M. Joseph Young

The Essential Guide to Time Travel

This is the long requested concise yet comprehensive volume covering time travel theory.

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From Dimensionfold Publishing, it summarizes most of the important information from the two-hundred page temporal anomalies website, and should provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the various time travel theories, what works and what doesn't, and how to make sense of a time travel story.

Why I Believe

One and a half decades in the writing,

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this is a fairly comprehensive yet compact presentation of the evidence for the existence of God and for Christianity specifically.

From Dimensionfold Publishing, it is the answer to the question of how it is that even some of the most intelligent people in the world believe in God.  It covers the classic and more modern arguments for the existence of God, plus other evidence of that existence, and responds to objections raised against such belief.

Faith and Gaming
Revised and Expanded Edition

In my role as chaplain of the Christian Gamers Guild, I wrote and published a series of articles, forty-nine in all, one per month for

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just over four years, exploring issues in role playing games and other hobby and leisure activities.  Christians and hobby gamers from around the world embraced these articles as a significant contribution not only to the hobby but also to the effort to make peace in the midst of conflict and misunderstanding.  BlackWyrm Publishing's Blessed Words Books division has now reprinted them in an expanded edition including several other articles on the subject, and at a better price.

This is available through booksellers everywhere.

Faith and Gaming

Game Ideas Unlimited

In June, 2001, the Game Ideas Unlimited series began

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running weekly on Gaming Outpost.  Each week a new article appeared, averaging 1500 words, exploring aspects of creativity in fiction and games.  Over the course of those four years, the series explored everything from the details of character creation to the nature of thought to the nuances of games

About the Fruit

Examining the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22, this compact study identifies half a dozen important aspects of "fruit" that are

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relevant to understanding God's work in our lives, then proceeds to examine in detail how the one fruit proves to be love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, yet not nine things but one thing described nine ways.  It continues to examine the situation in Galatia and in the Christian church at the time the Galatian epistle was written, unraveling the nature of the gospel as Paul understood it and why it is so opposed to the law preached by others at that time, then uncovers what it is to walk by the Spirit, and how that is accomplished in our lives.

What Does God Expect?

Presenting a compact but comprehensive view of how the Gospel of

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Jesus Christ informs our conduct, this short book packs in discussion of The Two Commandments, the Weaker Brother, Humility, Guidance, Renewing Your Mind, and more.

Verse Three, Chapter One

Available in hardcover, with an absolutely gorgeous dust jacket, this is the novel of which sci-fi buff John A1nut said, "This is one of

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the most original concepts I have ever read in a novel in my life", and Christian gamer Eric Ashley wrote for RPGnet, "This book is intelligent....thoughtful, upbeat...unpredictable, fun, down-to earth, and truly adult (its heroes are adults) SF," and rated it five out of five for both style and substance.

Multiverser:  Referee's Rules

Multiverser:  The First Book of Worlds

Even if you're not a Multiverser player, you're going to want this book for whatever games you play.  Justin Bacon said, "The

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First Book of Worlds, even moreso than the main rulebook, is something unique....The First Book of Worlds defies expectation."  He went on to say that the book provided gamers with "dozens of things which they can use in games of their own."  RPGnet's Breton Stron agreed that it was "everything a module should be."

If you are a Multiverser player, then you probably already know that this is a must-have book.  It contains NagaWorld, the most recognizable world in the Multiverser game, and one of the most alien places ever imagined.  The Zygote Experience, a thorough description of how to run a role playing scenario about being born, is within these pages.  The five other worlds provide space travel, swashbuckling, fairytale, dungeon crawl, medieval history, alternate modern, and survival settings, for a truly varied gaming experience and a ton of examples for use in creating more worlds.

Multiverser:  The Second Book of Worlds

When Willard Bowzer saw this volume, he declared, "The authors

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really did the game system justice by making the product line better."  Again the seven worlds provide nine playable scenarios, and again they are easily adapted to whatever game you prefer.  This batch includes a completely different fantasy world with nothing at all familiar within it, a historical adventure, a witch trial, an alien invasion, a primitive frozen world, an alternate modern, a post-apocalyptic, and a time travel story.