The Infinite Day

by Chris Walley and Kashana Cauley

"Vero, you remember you once said there were people who would follow me to the gates of hell?" "A figure of speech." "We'd better find them. That's where we're going."After the defeat of the evil... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141431468X
• ISBN13: 9781414314686
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 15 to 19 years
• Grade Range: Grade 10 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Have you read this book?

If not, stop whatever else you are doing and get a copy. "The Lamb among the Stars" series is simply some of the best fiction to come along in a while. Walley is a far, far better writer then MOST of the others who are attempting the Genre, and this particular work will stay with you for some time. If you are a parent, your teens will enjoy it as much as you, and give you both plenty to think and talk about. Highly, highly recommended.

The best trilogy I have ever read.

Incredible. I almost feel that there is no point in reading any other sci-fi book after reading the epic brilliance of Chris Walley in "The Infinite Day." Reading any other book now would be like eating dry stale bread after a ten course meal. It is a shame so many other lesser books and authors are so shamlessly promoted and this epic classic seems to have had none at all. C.S.Lewis sci-fi does not even come close to this groundbreaking, epic, instant clasic. I was at times moved, shocked, affirmed, horrified, excited, anxious, satisfied, elated, triumphant, depressed, angry, disbelieving, challenged, convicted... need I say more (I could). The series was so unpredictable, creative, and exciting. Yet challenging and thought provoking. I think I will read the whole series all over again.

Bravo Chris Walley!

The final book in this series was not only well worth the wait....it shows the author's growth as a writer throughout the series. The first book was a slow read, but the profound concept of a sinless world once again having to battle evil made it worth the effort. The pacing picks up in the next and the theology deepens. The final book is a masterpiece of Christian fiction. The author balances multiple plot points, a host of believable characters, and never loses the reader's interest. The battle against evil occurs on many fronts...there's a real enemy to be fought externally but it must be done in community and within each individual human heart. It's beautifully done. Add to that mix the dimensionality of heaven and hell and probably the most satisfying ending in modern fiction....wow. Well done, Mr. Walley! May the REAL force be with you!

Real Christian Science Fiction

It is rare to see fiction from a writer that has a lot of knowledge of BOTH spirituality and science. Typically, the writer has only a sketchy knowledge of one or the other. Much of Non Christian science fiction displays not only ignorance about spirituality but about basic human nature......especially our inclination towards evil. consider what the "Q" character in Star Trek, the Next Generation, says. He says that humans are the most grudgeless of species, willing to forgive "almost any offense." Picard and the other "good" characters of the show agree with him. To a Christian, heck to anybody who pays the slightest attention to himself and his fellow humans, this is like saying the sky is green with pink poka-dots. It is patently absurd. Traditional science fiction is filled with remarks such as the above. Evil in traditional science fiction nearly always consists of bad social institutions, movements, and the like. Individual evil is simply ignored, misunderstood, or thought unimportant. For example, David Webber's books include individual evil - but with him it is generally a black and white thing. When "good" people do bad things, he seems to think it is the result of ignorance. Once the person aquires the right knowledge, the evil goes away. When a bad person turns good in Webber's world, it is generally a complete, instant transformation. Also, people go from bad to good but never from good to bad. Webber is good at creating credible societies and histories, but his characters are completely unrealistic from a spiritual point of view. This is not so with Walley's characters. They are rich and are much like what we see in real life. Even without the escatology and the grand space battles, the books could stand on its characters' internal battles alone. The same could not be said of traditional science fiction, or even a great deal of non-Christian literature in general. To truly understand a character, you have to look at his spiritual life(meaning his basic values in life, his loyalty to them, and his beliefs about higher powers such as God). Take all this away and you have a hollow person. It seems to me that this gives Christian writers have a great advantage - their characters tend to have more depth. On the other hand, much of the speculative fiction we have seen from the Christian community displays an ignorance of science. This is a lesser problem for me. But it is an obstical to evangelism, and it makes for a less rich and believable story. I think that the Lamb Among the Stars series is made more rich because of the author's "day job" as a geology professor. It gives him a uninque perspective not often seen even in secular speculative fiction - there are not many geologists writing sci-fi today. As for comparisons with the "Left Behind" series, I find it hard to judge since I have only read the first two books in that group. Walley's books have a slower pace since they don't have such a detailed eschatology to explain, and b

A worthy, satisfying conclusion

First of all, for those who have found this book, but haven't yet looked at _The Shadow and Night_ and _The Dark Foundations_, please do so now, as they are the first books in the series. Back? Good. We see ever more in this book the changes in the people of the Assembly: on Farholme the shift in government from collegial committee to autocracy has culminated in bureaucracy. At the heart of the Assembly, factions flourish, arguments abound, and many are dissatisfied with the person in charge for being too weak to unite people behind him. What I found most interesting, though, were the revelations about the people of the Dominion: just as those of the Assembly never were fully good, those of the Dominion (and the True Freeborn) were not fully evil. So the Assembly when falling looks more and more like normal politics today, the Dominion looks increasingly like something that today's society could turn into, and between them, not even human, is Betafor, provoking questions about the sentience of intelligent machines, the ethics of dealing with them, and the ethics of them dealing with humanity. Ultimately, this is a story about the societies, about the people in them and the choices they make, about the consequences of those choices. The science fiction setting allows for these subjects to be raised in interesting ways. For those who want a direct comparison, this series has much better prose and pacing than the _Left Behind_ books, and aside from issues of setting (i.e. the setting is this way, so these events had to happen in history), the theology should not be objectionable at all to those who agree with the theology presented in the _Left Behind_ series. All in all, a wonderful, thrilling end to a thought-provoking series.