The Golden Age
Last Guardian of Everness
Orphans of Chaos
Null-A Continuum
Count to a Trillion

by John C. Wright

"This fledgling century's most important new SF talent" -Publishers Weekly

Publications

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THE WAR OF THE DREAMING		THE GOLDEN AGE TRILOGY
The Last Guardian of Everness	Mists of Everness	The Golden Age	The Phoenix Exultant	The Golden Transcendence	The Golden Age Trilogy
Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0312848714 Published August 2004 as a hardback by Tor books.	Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765313332 Published March 2005 as a hardback by Tor books.	Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0312848706 Published April 2002 as a hardback by Tor books.	Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765304325 Published May 2003 as a hardback by Tor books.	Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765307561 Published November 2003 as a hardback by Tor books.	NO LONGER AVAILABLE ISBN # 0739439650 Published February 2004 from the Science Fiction Book Club

Please see the Short Stories page for more information on short fiction publication and availability.

Free Samples and Stories

Fiction Available on the Web

• LAST OF ALL SUNS
• AWAKE IN THE NIGHT
• CRY OF THE NIGHT-HOUND (in excerpt only)
• SILENCE OF THE NIGHT
• ON THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS
• A RANDOM WORLD OF DELTA CAPRICORNI Aa, ALSO CALLED SCHEDDI

Non-Fiction Available on the Web

• AND NO FEMALE, EVER
• FAITH AND SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION (Published as ALIENS NEED  CHRIST'S REDEMPTION, TOO)

Announcements

December 2012

• Personal Appearance!
  Meet John C. Wright as he reads from his new science fiction novel The Hermetic Millennia, the sequel to Count to a Trillion.
  WHEN:
  Richmond, VA
  Tuesday, January 15, 2013
  7:00 PM
  WHERE:
  Fountain Bookstore
  1312 East Cary Street
  Richmond, VA 23219
  

July 2010

• New Space Opera 2 wins the LOCUS AWARD for 2010
  NEW SPACE OPERA 2 Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan (Editors) in which my short story, The Far End of History ( a Tale of the End of the Seventh Mental Structure) has just won the prestigious Locus Award (announcement is here).
  
  Also Tor Books my own esteemed publisher, Tom Doherty, from an invincible lair on the thirteenth floor of the Flatiron Building in New York, won a well deserved award over competition that can only be deigned incompetent, and in some cases malign. I am confident my fawning and toadlicking and unseemly cringing in the shadow of Tom Doherty had as much to do with the winning of this award as the publication of books by Gene Wolfe.
  
  I also note with pleasure that another anthology in which a tale of mine appears, SONG OF THE DYING EARTH Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin (Editors) has won the additional laurels of having what is now an Locus Award Winning short story, An Invocation of Incuriosity by Neil Gaiman.
  
  While my story in that volume, Guyal the Curator, had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Gaiman's well merited award, I would like my loyal reader (Hi, Mom!) to imagine or to pretend that the judges were put in a good and receptive mood by reading my story first, so that the judges doubtless would have been unable properly to savor Mr. Gaimans story had it not been for me: in this way, with the same august dignity as, for example, Gollum shows while lusting for the One Ring, I can have my loyal reader pretend I have a right to bask in the shiny reflection of Mr. Gaimans glory.

May 2010

• Personal Appearance on Holy Ground!
  John C. Wright will be making a personal appearance on May 25th — giving a Lecture at the Catholic Information Center. Question and answers after. I have been asked to tell my conversion story and speak about the Science Fiction and Christianity.
  
  This is a Tuesday evening, one week from today, at The Catholic Information Center 1501 K Street NW, Washington, DC. 20005. I think it starts at 6.00.
  
  This is pretty short notice, so those of my readers who live in Alaska should sell your homes, pack your ten children and the family mule into your truck, and start driving now.
  
  NOTICE to immortals — the bookstore also celebrates mass, and so technically is holy ground, therefore the duels leading up to The Gathering are held in abeyance. So if you start any of that There can only be one! jazz, take it outside.

February 2010

• Personal Appearance! It's a Family Affair!
  John C. Wright and his lovely and talented wife, L. Jagi Lamplighter will be doing a book-signing in Manasssas, Virginia, between 5.00 and 7.00 pm at The Manassas Barnes and Nobles on Sudley Road, Westgate Plaza, 8117 Sudley Road, Manassas, VA 20109.

September 2009

• Personal Appearance! Double-header Weekend! Twice the talent! Twice the action!
  
  John C. Wright and his lovely and talented wife, L. Jagi Lamplighter will be doing a book-signing in Norfolk, VA at 1:00pm on Saturday, September 19th at: MacArthur Center 300 Monticello, Norfolk, VA 23510
  
  And again in historic Williamsburg, Virginia (my alma step-mater) at 1:00pm on Sunday, September 20th at: Barnes and Nobles Duke of Gloucester Street Williamsburg, VA 23185

August 2009

• Personal Appearance! John C. Wright will be attending Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, in Montréal, Québec. Thursday 6 August - Monday 10 August, 2009. See you there!

May 2009

• Personal Appearance! John C. Wright will be attending Balticon Memorial Day Weekend May 22-25, 2009
  At Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore, MD, appearing on several panels, and trying to explain to his editor why his latest novel is roughly a year overdue.

March 2009

• Personal Appearance! On April 11th (Easter Weekend) Reading and Book Signing at the College of William and Mary's Bookstore in historic Williamsburg, Virginia (my alma step-mater). The bookstore at 345 Duke of Glouster Street. Runs from 2:00 PM until 5:00 PM.

• The inestimable Gordon Van Gelder of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has finally published the best short story I have ever written, One Bright Star to Guide Them. It appears in the April-May edition of the magazine, ON SALE NOW! See a review of this issue at SfRevu.

February 2009

• Null-A Continuum to be released in paperback from Tor books!

• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction wherein appears my novella One Bright Star to Guide Them has announced their line-up for their bimonthly April-May 2009 issue. You may subscribe here.

December 2008

Much news this month

• SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH is available for pre-order! Just in time for Christmas! Order yours before the sun is quenched by the feebleness of age, or Inconnu the Laughing Magician will intrude the unreasonable many-barbed nuisance Firx of Archernar into your liver!

• Now Available in Paperback! Andy Robertson has published my latest story Cry of the Night Hound and Last of All Suns at the Night Lands volume II: Nightmares of the FallI This tale takes place in the same background as Awake in the Night, the eerie, horror-haunted, and eternally nighted world of William Hope Hodgson ("And the sun had died...")

• The inestimable Gordon Van Gelder of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has finally accepted the best short story I have ever written, One Bright Star to Guide Them. I am not sure in what issue it might appear, so subscribe and buy them all. Hurrah! This means I have made it into the Big Leagues!

• Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan have accepted my short story Far End of History (a Tale of the Eighth Mental Structure) for their NEW SPACE OPERA II. This takes place in the same background as my The Golden Age trilogy, and tells of the future adventures of Atkins, last soldier in paradise, and his endless wars against the Lords of the Silent Oecumene at Cygnus X-One.

• John Jacobs Adams has accepted my novella Twilight of the Gods for his anthology FEDERATIONS.

November 2008

Infinivox has just released "Guest Law" by John C. Wright. The story is read by Tom Dheere.

March 2008

Null-A Continuum receives a starred review from Kirkus. A star is assigned to books of unusual merit, determined by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

February 2008

Titans of Chaos makes the LOCUS recommended reading list for 2007. I am giddy with delight.

Later in May 2007

Interview! I was interviewed by Mr. Adams of SciFi Wire here.

Personal appearance! I will be going to Balticon 41 this weekend. The great Larry Niven will be the guest of honor. I did not get my list of panels yet from the organizers, but let us hope all will be worked out in a satisfactory fashion in due time.

May 2007

Paul di Filippo at SCI FI WEEKLY reviews Titans of Chaos and gives it good marks.

April 2007

The April issue of Locus magazine, Nick Gevers has a review of Titans of Chaos.

February 2007

Interview! Nick Gevers of Locus magazine, writing for SciFi.Com asks several softball questions and one hard question of an easily-fuddled and humble author. Included are some comments about the Null-A sequel, Null-A Continuum.

February 2007

Wonder of wonders! Fugitives of Chaos has made the 2006 Recommended Reading List in the February issue of Locus magazine. The list is the consensus from the editors and reviewers of Locus magazine, who are known for their discriminating tastes. I am on the same list with Gene Wolfe, Stephen King, and Tim Powers.

See the list of previous announcements.

Find out about John C. Wright's upcoming books by visiting his agent's page.