Welcome to Emporia USA, the website of Professor Theophilus' Emporium of Imagination, Inc. The Emporium was founded by Intrepid Force author Timothy Wise to showcase his own work and to promote the work of other authors with similar literary goals.

Emporium Press is the Emporium's publishing imprint. Later imprints may be added for graphics and movie work. Intrepid Force, Tim's first novel, was released in May 2003 and three new novels were published in 2005. Revisions of some of those earlier novels, a third Intrepid Force novel, and two new novels are on the way. There's also an Intrepid Force graphic novel in the works.

Emporium Graphics is the studio's graphic design imprint and the movie studio is still under construction.

The Emporium of Imagination sits on the border of intersecting realms. It is, in one sense, a Christian company, reflecting the values and beliefs of its founder. On the other hand, the literary tastes and interests of the founder are not limited only to those works bearing exclusively Christian labels. There is much that is noble and praiseworthy in classical and mainstream media, and some things that are just good, clean (albeit sometimes weird and scary) fun.

Tim chose the metaphor of a Victorian era village to capture the spirit of the company. Each feature of the village symbolizes some aspect of the studio.

The bookstore, naturally, represents Emporium Press. The art gallery represents the graphic design aspects of the operation. The cafe represents the soul of the enterprise, the community of
Click on the Bookstore link on the button bar to buy books and Inspirations Cafe link for the latest updates to the Emporium of Imagination blog.
BOOK of the MONTH
This month's first Christian Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog Tour features Athol Dickson's LOST MISSION, a tale of magical realism set in the desert of Southern California.
writers, artists, and fans we hope to build. The wax museum--well, the wax museum just seemed like fun.

Emporia USA is the kind of place where you'd find Holmes and Watson working with the local police department, Professor Challenger (from Doyle's The Lost World) lecturing on dinosaurs at the local university, and Dr. Jekyll practicing medicine. George McDonald or one of his characters could be found lecturing at the chapel. If you had a powerful enough telescope, you might see canals on Mars or prehistoric jungles on Venus. We'd like to think C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Ray Bradbury would enjoy spending time in the cafe--and we hope you will too.
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Tim's Times:

April 2010: This has been a long semester. My courses in Apologetics and Intermediate Hebrew have taken me away from writing and computer graphics for quite a while and I'm itching to get back to it. There's always that question of balance, isn't there? At this point I've got about 300 pages on Haunted Summer, 200 on the third Intrepid Force book, and 100 on an adventure story based on the book of Genesis and the explorations in the Middle East that took place in the 1800s and early 1900s. Stay tuned!
Christian Film and Media Festival held in early June: