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DONE! Er… Almost 27 Aug 2013 | 09:53 am
The first draft of THE CONCUBINE VECTOR is finished as of this moment. It is roughly a zillion words over my word limit, so I will have to spend weeks and fortnights cutting it down to size. It runs ...
Book Recommendations and Revolution Recommendation 25 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
Earlier I posted a rather lengthy list of recommended books for anyone interested in the Great Books; let me provided a shorter list here, taken from Peter Kreeft: Read the rest of this entry » Orig...
Night of Delusions; Works of Subversion 22 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
This is not a book review, but a meditation upon the enemy prompted by a book. The book is NIGHT OF DELUSIONS by Keith Laumer, a minor effort by an accomplished author whose accomplishments are all b...
Cover Art for THE CONCUBINE VECTOR ?? 1 Aug 2013 | 03:45 am
The Tor Art Department has not yet decided on a cover for my next book, CONCUBINE VECTOR, which, to be frank, I have not finished or sent to them yet. But I was able to find an artist’s conception of ...
Cover Art and Synopsis of JUDGE OF AGES 31 Jul 2013 | 03:22 am
Here is the cover to JUDGE OF AGES. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at John C. Wright's Journal. Please leave any comments there.
Panphysicalism 27 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Part of an ongoing, possibly endless, conversation. My apologies to those whose patience with this is not superhuman. A reader of the philosophical materialist persuasion named Andreassen offers me t...
On the Garden of Paradise 27 Jul 2013 | 02:02 am
This is an essay I was asked to write for a Spanish language anthology, not yet released, asked of several men of letters their thoughts and opinions about the life to come. I reprint it here with the...
Daily Dose of Chesterton 26 Jul 2013 | 10:43 pm
A word of explanation. This was written after GK Chesterton was no longer an agnostic, and had lost a good deal of sympathy with the Liberal Party to which he belonged. but long before he joined the C...
Heroic Villains and Villainous Heroes 24 Jul 2013 | 02:43 am
I recently saw two films and a cartoon, and was puzzled, perhaps even a trifle aghast, and could not puzzle out what it was I was seeing. Then I heard a speech, and the puzzle was solved. The two fil...
Wright’s Writing Corner — The Why and Wherefore of World Building 23 Jul 2013 | 09:49 pm
Pundits puzzle over why it should be that fantasy, that nostalgic adoration of swords and sorcerers, elfin mariners whose silver ships breast the winedark starlit seas of myth, and science fiction, th...