Theodore Beale

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Vox Day

Vox Day by Tracy White.
Born Theodore Beale
Other names VD (Blog username)
Education Bucknell University
Occupation Columnist, Author, Video game designer
Political party Libertarian
Religious beliefs Southern Baptist
Parents Robert Beale, Rebecca Beale
Website
http://voxday.net

Theodore Beale is a computer game designer, technology entrepreneur and writer. He is a member of the SFWA, MENSA and IGDA and was a founder of the electronic band Psykosonik, which recorded four Billboard Top 40 club play hits in the '90s.[1] He has twice been a member of the SFWA's Nebula Novel Jury,[2] and in addition to his Eternal Warriors series of Christian Fantasy novels,[3] he has published a novel and one non-fiction work under the pseudonym Vox Day. He first began writing under this name for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where he wrote a weekly video game review column and other features.[4] He presently uses the pen name for a weekly WorldNetDaily opinion column [5] and has been nationally syndicated under it three times, once by Chronicle Features and twice by Universal Press Syndicate.[6]

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[edit] Biography

Beale graduated from Bucknell University in 1990 [7] and is the son of Robert B. Beale, a former technology executive and associate WorldNetDaily publisher who was convicted on Federal tax charges in 2008.[8]. Theodore Beale was an early member of the industrial-techno band Psykosonik.

In 1993, Beale and Andrew Lunstad founded a Minnesota-based video game company named Fenris Wolf, developer of the game Rebel Moon (1995) and the sequel Rebel Moon Rising (1997).[9] Fenris 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.[10] In 1999, under the name Eternal Warriors, Beale and Lunstad released The War in Heaven,[11] a Biblical video game published by Valusoft and distributed by GT Interactive.

[edit] Controversy

Beale's views on equality, women's rights, and immigration have been controversial. [12] [13] [14] Writing as Vox Day in a WorldNetDaily column that puts forward his Christian-derived beliefs, Beale has described women's rights as "a disease that should be eradicated," believing that women's rights hurt women, [15] and said that according to the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic only a woman who is not entertaining the possibility of sex with a man can be considered a "wholly innocent victim under this ethic" should she be raped. [16]

In September 2004, Day publicly challenged Conservative Commentator Michelle Malkin to an on-air debate on the Northern Alliance Radio Show after writing a pair of columns criticizing numerous factual inaccuracies in her book "In Defense of Internment". Malkin declined the debate. In May 2006 Day was repeatedly criticized on air by national radio host Michael Medved for an article published on WorldNetDaily in which he compared deportation of illegal immigrants in the United States of America to the Jewish Holocaust while opposing a fence on the southern border of the United States. Medved called the libertarian Day "Nazi boy" and "Nazi-lover" and claimed that "he was basically taking a Nazi position" and that "he approves of the Nazi program of deportation and execution."[17]


[edit] Video game works

Game Name First Released System Name(s) Beale's Role(s)
Rebel Moon 1995 DOS Game Designer, Co-Producer
Rebel Moon Rising 1997 DOS Game Designer, Co-Producer
Rebel Moon Revolution Planned 1999 Windows Game Designer, Co-Producer
The War in Heaven 1999 Windows Game Designer
Traveller Planned 2000 Sega Dreamcast Game Designer
Hot Dish 2007 Windows Game Designer

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Discography

  • Psykosonik (1993) ASIN B000003RFN
  • Silicon Jesus (1993) ASIN B000003RID
  • Welcome to My Mind (1993) ASIN B000003RIF
  • Details Magazine Music Matters Volume 4 (1992) ASIN B000BJBNDS
  • Unlearn (1995) ASIN B000003RGH
  • Mortal Kombat: Annihilation - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1997) ASIN B000000GU2
  • Sunyata (2003) ASIN B0001ARVWY

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Hot Club Dance Play", Billboard Music Charts.
  2. ^ "Nebula Novel Jury", The SF Site
  3. ^ "Other Worlds, Suffused with Religion", Publishers Weekly.
  4. ^ Deep Eco", Interview with Umberto Eco
  5. ^ "Behind the Pitch", Gamasutra.
  6. ^ Vox Day One Shots", Universal Press Syndicate
  7. ^ "An Everything-Goes Sort of Company", Bucknell World.
  8. ^ http://www.startribune.com/local/18424219.html Up to 10 years in prson for millionare tax-dodger
  9. ^ "Rebel Moon Rising", IMDB.
  10. ^ "Fenris Wolf sues GT Interactive", IGN.
  11. ^ "It's Demons vs. Angels in Computer Game With a Religious Theme", The New York Times.
  12. ^ Austin Cline's Agnosticism at About.com
  13. ^ Everything I need to know about rounding up auslanders, I learned from the Nazis, or Why Vox Day is a pompous ignoramus
  14. ^ Ann Coulter: Where are the Skinheads When You Need Them? at About.com
  15. ^ Beale, Theodore; writing as Vox Day (2005-08-08). Why women's rights are wrong. Worldnetdaily. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.
  16. ^ Beale, Theodore; writing as Vox Day (2005-12-05). The morality of rape. Vox Archive. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.
  17. ^ "The Michael Medved Show, June 8, 2006", Vox Popoli.

[edit] External links

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