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Reviewer Praise for IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY

Posted June 2, 2025 By John C Wright

Upstream Reviews posts a review of my IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY

In his epic poem PARADISE LOST, the poet prays for a fit audience, that is, one sympathetic to the aim of the poem, sensitive to its spirit, mood, nuance. I have found such a reader in Declan Finn, who manages to review my attempt at a Charles Williams style metaphysical mystery tale without giving away any of the plot twists. He is to be thanked for this courtesy.

His review is here:

He writes, in part:

F. Paul Wilson’s novel The Keep had impressed me growing up because it was a novel that had started out as Dracula and ended with Lord of the Rings.

John C Wright has managed and even greater trick with his novel Iron Chamber of Memory.

In this case, what started out as a romantic comedy, Nora Roberts style, and then, Jeffery Deaver-like, ended in an epic battle on the scale of Mary Stewart and her books of King Arthur and Merlin.

Let’s call it a fantasy romance, of sorts. Where’s the soundtrack for Excalibur! I need O Fortuna to accompany the knights charging out of the mists!

Trust me, when I say it was epic, I mean EPIC.

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Kickstarter coming for Pinkerton’s Ghost

Posted May 31, 2025 By John C Wright

A Kickstarter for Starquest book covers is coming soon, but in the meanwhile, here is another worthy cause:

 

 

Our own Ben Wheeler, David Hallquist, and Anthony Marchetta are also writers/producers of Pinkerton’s Ghosts, a horror anthology podcast on YouTube, who recently launched a Kickstarter.

If they raise the $2,000 the animatic creator Jojo Fraga has agreed to make a three minute animatic based on the climax of Season 2 of Pinkerton’s Ghosts (when our intrepid detectives venture into Hell itself).

There are rewards for supporters. If you want to support more superversive content, consider donating!

At $656.00 donated with 22 days to go, the drive might be a successful with just a little more momentum.

Link here!

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 22: Nothing

Posted May 28, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep. 22: Nothing

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Epistle to Ansgar: Letter 17 (Radical Skepticism)

Posted May 27, 2025 By John C Wright

25 May 2025 AD
Feast Day of Venerable Bede

Dear Godson,

Today is the feast of the Venerable Bede, a scholar and historian and most celebrated man of letters of his day. He wrote treatises on scripture, science, history, biography, and it the first to use the dating system from the Birth of Christ, Anno Domini, A.D. He is also the first to mention King Arthur, whose historical reality many skeptics doubt.

Let us call on his spirit to aid us as we turn to another of the great doubts likely to afflict the modern Christian, which are doubts issuing from a particular philosophy, or, rather, mental disorder, to which only scholars seem prone, namely, that of refusing to admit what one knows to be the self evident.

Radical skepticism is the besetting sin of the modern day.

Radical skepticism is not doubt about this thing or that, but rather is skepticism about the faculty of the human mind itself. It is doubt about the instrument used to discriminate between reasonable and unreasonable doubt.

Skepticism is doubt about matters where there is a reasonable argument on both sides. Radical skepticism is doubt about matters no one is honestly able to doubt.

But there are things we cannot not know.

Such things are not open to reasonable doubt. They are open to unreasonable doubt, for all things are.

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Til Death Do Us Part

Posted May 23, 2025 By John C Wright

Til Death Do Us Part

Eleven stories of fantasy and science fiction of married couples in adversity and adventure, but together.
Yours truly has no story here, but I wrote the intro.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9PVYY6S

Stories by

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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXIV

Posted May 22, 2025 By John C Wright
  • U.S. House on May 22, 2025 (H.R. 1), just passed in the House. H.R.1 completely removes suppressors from the National Firearms Act requirements by including Section 2 of the Hearing Protection Act. This eliminates the $200 tax, registration, enhanced background checks, and other NFA burdens. The bill also preempts state regulations, refunds recent tax stamp payments, and includes other deregulatory measures.
    It passed by a single vote. Now on to the Senate.
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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 21: War and Logic

Posted May 21, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep. 21: War and Logic

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Emergency Request

Posted May 21, 2025 By John C Wright
An announcement on behalf of a reader, and a plea for help.
Our own David Marcoe writes:
My father lives in the Philippines with his wife, stepchildren, and step grandchildren. He has advanced cancer that is probably terminal. Recently, he’s been stuck in the hospital after he lost the use of his legs. My family and I have been helping with his medical costs, but I don’t have any more liquid funds immediately available. The hospital where he’s staying in the Philippines won’t discharge him until his bill is paid in full. But the longer he stays, the more the bill goes up.

Luckily, his wife has negotiated payment down to about $2,900, and then they’ll discharge him. We need your help to raise those funds. You can donate at this GonFundMe link. We also ask for your prayers. Thank you.
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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXIII

Posted May 20, 2025 By John C Wright
  • RFK Jr.’s HHS has canceled additional $60 MILLION in grants to Harvard

My comment: the administration at Harvard regards it as more important than the staggering truckloads of taxpayer cash flooding into their institution to maintain the DEI program of race-based admissions and hiring. Antiwhite prejudice is a core Woke doctrine, and they would rather perish than admit White men are human beings with souls equal in dignity to other races.

Why such madness? Because the Liberal mind is a limited mind. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Liberals are shallow.

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The Leviathan in Job

Posted May 16, 2025 By John C Wright

Part of an ongoing conversion:

I believe the main point in the Book of Job is stated explicitly: piety is not a calculation of self interest. The Accuser is given permission to vex Job with all fashion of evils, because the accusation is that Job is pious only because it benefits him.

All worldly goods (including children) are taken away. Job does not curse God and die.

His three so called friends console him by saying it is his fault when both he, and the poet, know explicitly it is not his fault. So much is clear.

The ending, however, is a mystery.

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 20: Reality

Posted May 14, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep. 20: Reality

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Live From The Bunker 832: Interview with Wright and Paolinelli

Posted May 13, 2025 By John C Wright

Live From The Bunker 832: Finding New Franchises – The Superversive Era

Yours truly and the inestimable Richard Paolinelli discuss the future of the future, our current book projects, what went wrong with STAR WARS what is right with STARQUEST and many other topics both shallow and profound.

Twitter – https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DXGyqybamZGM“
Rumble – https://rumble.com/v6tb54z-live-from-the-bunker-832-finding-new-franchises-the-superversive-era.html
Odysee – https://odysee.com/@SciFi4Me:3/live-from-the-bunker-832_superversive-richard-paolinelli-john-wright-jagi-lamplighter:f
YouTube – https://youtube.com/live/gosqOz1L35A
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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXII

Posted May 13, 2025 By John C Wright

The United States is drastically overregulated.  The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can possibly read, let alone fully understand.  Worse, many carry potential criminal penalties for violations.  The situation has become so dire that no one -– likely including those charged with enforcing our criminal laws at the Department of Justice — knows how many separate criminal offenses are contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, with at least one source estimating hundreds of thousands of such crimes.  Many of these regulatory crimes are “strict liability” offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime.

This status quo is absurd and unjust.  It allows the executive branch to write the law, in addition to executing it.  That situation can lend itself to abuse and weaponization by providing Government officials tools to target unwitting individuals.  It privileges large corporations, which can afford to hire expensive legal teams to navigate complex regulatory schemes and fence out new market entrants, over average Americans.  

The purpose of this order is to ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for violating a regulation they have no reason to know exists.

My Comment: Let me repeat another man’s comment instead. This is Mr. Chris Bray:

https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/big-trump-action-goes-mostly-unnoticed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tzyp2&triedRedirect=true

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Young Danger Girls in Love

Posted May 12, 2025 By John C Wright

I ran a role playing game once set in a superhero background, and I wanted a system more rough and ready than the role playing games then commercially available.

Such rough and ready systems rely on the moderator’s discretion more than might be wise for a commercial system, but my players trusted me to be fair. If offer this to any interested fan of the genre, merely to show one way of inventing quick but playable characters.

For some reason, all the players, male and female both, wanted to play females, and insisted on Spider-Men levels of soap opera romance in the play, so I built that into the rules.

It was meant to be more of a game of intrigue, conspiracies and puzzles, so the actual power level of the supers was less important than how clever they were at talking to the NPCs, and ferreting our clues.

The game started with the players having agreed to join a special teen investigation squad of the Justice League, run by The Question, with Batgirl and Booster Gold as his lieutenants.

(Booster Gold, in my background, is 25th Century the remote descendant of John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom. Batgirl was the granddaughter of Flash Gordon, who is not on Earth, but is still alive. Steve Rogers was the son of Anthony ‘Buck’ Rogers, who disappeared in a mine cave-in in the 1930s.)

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Epistle to Ansgar: Letter 16 (The Problem of Pain)

Posted May 12, 2025 By John C Wright

04 May 2025 AD
Feast Day of St John Paine

Dear Godson,

In prior letters we examined reasons for our faith in the Lord. Let us now examine reasons for doubt, and, if possible how to answer or assuage such doubts. Let us start with the hardest question of all: the Problem of Pain.

Today is the feast day of Saint John Payne, and so perhaps apt for the topic.

Today is also the feast day for the Forty Martyrs of England, among whom St John Payne is numbered. While hiding in estate of the widowed Lady Petre, he was denounced by John “Judas” Eliot (a rapist, murderer, and thief who made a career out of denouncing Catholics for bounty), who falsely accused him of conspiring to murder Queen Elizabeth. After perjured testimony and a preordained verdict, Payne was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London for nine months, and finally condemned, hanged, drawn, and quartered. He never renounced his Catholic faith.

The histories of secular kings and conquerors boast of their victories, of armies routed, cities burned, lands looted. Our history of sacred martyrs boast instead of mild submission to those  betrayals, torments, executions, and deaths, which never separated the saints we venerate from the love of God. It is an attestation of the impossible power of the Lord.

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