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The book was named a 2007 Christmas recommendation by John Derbyshire in the online conservative magazine, National Review Online. In 2008 Day published The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, a book devoted to criticizing the arguments presented in various books by atheist authors Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michel Onfray. He was a contributor to the Black Gate blog until December 2012. ĭay served as a member of the Nebula Award Novel Jury in 2004 and in 2007. The novel investigates themes "about good versus evil among angels, fallen and otherwise".

#VOX DAY DOWN SERIES#

In 2000, Day published his first solo novel, The War in Heaven, the first in a series of fantasy novels with a religious theme entitled The Eternal Warriors. His columns have been nationally syndicated three times, once by Chronicle Features and twice by Universal Press Syndicate. Paul Pioneer Press, and later continued to use the pen name for a weekly WorldNetDaily opinion column. ĭay first began writing under the name Vox Day for a weekly video game review column in the St. Day was an early supporter of Gamergate and hosted the GGinParis meetup in July 2015 with Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich. In 1999, under the name Eternal Warriors, Day and Lunstad released The War in Heaven, a biblical video game published by Valusoft and distributed by GT Interactive. It was also the first game to implement speech recognition technology in both single-player and multiplayer action.įenris 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. Rebel Moon Rising was the first game to support Intel's MMX technology and over six million copies were bundled with MMX chips sold around the world. Computer Gaming World described Rebel Moon Rising as technologically innovative and "highly creative", and declared that its escort missions broke new ground in 3D shooter mission design. They developed the game Rebel Moon in 1995, and its sequel Rebel Moon Rising in 1997. Video game and writing careerĭay and Andrew Lunstad founded a video game company in 1993 named Fenris Wolf. In 2021, Day founded Boomer Patrol, a cover band that records parody covers changed to reflect the band's singular theme of helping Baby Boomers move on to a better place with the assistance of pillows. They provided the music for several games, including X-Calibur 2097 (Nintendo), C圜lones (SSI), and Marathon (Bungie Software). In 1995, Day and Sebastian founded Power of Seven to make soundtracks for video games. Their first recorded song was the unreleased "Sex Me Up", which was the first song on the three-song demo that led to the band being signed to Wax Trax! and TVT Records. Psykosonik began recording electronic music at Sebastian's apartment where he had a recording studio and performed in Minneapolis clubs such as First Avenue, 7th Street Entry, and Glam Slam. They found a drummer, Michael Larson, and a production engineer, Daniel Lenz. He met Smilehouse lead singer Paul Sebastian at The Underground in Minneapolis and the two men put together a band with Day on keyboards and Sebastian on guitar and vocals.

In 1987, Day was playing in a cover band called NoBoys. Day left the band before "It Has Begun", which was featured on the Mortal Kombat: More Kombat soundtrack, was written or recorded. Day was responsible for composition and lyrics on three of the four: "Silicon Jesus", "Welcome to My Mind", and "Unlearn". Music careerīetween 19 Day was a founding member of the electronic band Psykosonik, which recorded four Billboard Top 40 Club Play hits. Beale first began to write short stories while he was in college, and began using the name Vox Day as a stage name after founding the band Psykosonik. He graduated from Bucknell University in 1990, where he studied economics, history, and Japanese, and ran for four East Coast Conference championship-winning track teams. In 1986, he was the 100-meter and 200-meter dash champion of the Tri-Metro Conference, recording personal bests of 10.82 and 22.40 seconds.

He attended Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis where he played varsity soccer for the MISSL-champion Indians and ran track-and-field. He is of English, Irish, Mexican, and Native American descent.

He is the son of entrepreneur Robert Beale and the father of Christopher Beale, the youngest-ever published male author. Theodore Beale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Minnesota.