Archive for January, 2018

One Professional’s Attitude toward Critics

Posted January 31, 2018 By John C Wright

Me, I am pleasantly surprised and very pleased that any reviewer, even a harsh one, reads one of my humble books at all. He could have spent that same money on beer, or the same free time watching reruns on the telly. He picked my book instead.

That is a compliment to my writing, and one I accept with humble gratitude. A hard critic will also did me the even greater honor of liking the book well enough to see and think about its shortcomings, which means, in other words, he took the book seriously.

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Odd Tidbits

Posted January 31, 2018 By John C Wright

Amazing what odd tidbids one can find on the interwebs.

This is something I found while looking up the proper names for Japanese sword forms.

“Kakashi’ means someone who takes the outward form of something for the sake of status or pride despite their lack of ability to do the thing they say or attempt to do. It can also refers to scarecrows – they look human, but they aren’t.”

It is of interest to fans of the longrunning anime series NARUTO. There is a major character there whose power is the ability to copy the magical techniques or jutsu of other ninja, much as Taskmaster the supervillain of Spiderman can copy anyone’s fighting style.

In a scene in the final season, when he is facing absolute defeat, an enemy mocks him as being a scarecrow, utterly unequal to the task. I did not get the second meaning which would have been clear to the Japanese audience.

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Escaping Atheism

Posted January 31, 2018 By John C Wright

More escapades tonight on Escaping Atheism. Belief in the supernatural is rational, evidence-based, sober, and healthy. Disbelief is irrational, blind, silly, and neurotic.

Join us. Leave comments; ask questions!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl3dEbk5cjI

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 35, Armada of the Air

Posted January 31, 2018 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 35, Armada of the Air, is now posted on Patreon.

Episode 35 Armada of the Air

In this exciting episode, the world’s last immortal man faces the combined airborne war fleets of the Empire of the Mighty, who have come to destroy him, and Colonel Lost faces his first and worst decision as leader.  

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Reviewer Praise (and Otherwise) from Goodreads

Posted January 30, 2018 By John C Wright

I find that reviews from customers are always more useful than those from professional reviewers, simply because the professionals are getting paid, and so they want to write columns that will be entertaining to read, which puts them under an incentive either to indulge in insult-humor quips or political posturing.

Customers, on the other hand, can give an author valuable feedback on what bits worked and what did not, and one can use the hints to improve one’s writing.

Here are several reviews of COUNT TO INFINITY from Goodreads, some complimentary, some critical, and some are oddly reverse-complimentary (that is, the complaint unintentionally compliments the book).

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Count to Infinity and Dead Bees

Posted January 29, 2018 By John C Wright

This is an article from the Superversive Press site  by Thomas Davidsmeier:

My bees died. They were alive at Christmas, but dead by New Year’s. It wasn’t the trendy Colony Collapse Disorder where they all leave and the hive is empty. No, it was a winter kill.  They all died right there, in the hive, heads down in their comb desperately looking for honey that was only a few inches away.

Looking at my dead bee civilization, I was struck by how similar this experience was to something that I thought was impossible to imagine.

John C. Wright’s Count to Infinity is an amazing book that explores ideas and events beyond the scope of any book I’ve ever even heard of.

War tearing apart a galaxy far, far away?

Try two galaxies fighting a war with each other that rip them apart.

Men who live for thousands of years and fight duels with swords over and over because there can be only one?

Try men who live for billions of years and fight duels with unimaginably powerful weapons because there can be only one.

The fate of the world hanging in the balance?

Try the fate of all creation past and present, all who have ever lived and died, hanging in the balance.

At one point, a character realizes that civilizations have been being born, growing, doing their great work, and then dying, all for that character’s benefit. And, that character hasn’t been aware of them at all, like a person is unaware of the cells in their body that live and die for their benefit.

It was this image that my bees made real to me. My bees lived, worked, and died for their queen. And indirectly, they lived, worked, and died for me. But, like the character in Count to Infinity, I’m forced to admit that I never really knew them. Their sacrifice was one of lessers dying in service of their betters.

This happens often in stories, and John C. Wright is one of the first authors to offer an in story attempt to explain why it was happening in Count to Infinity. But, what happens in Count to Infinity that is even more emphatically superversive, is the sacrifice of a better for a lesser.

Read the whole thing here: http://www.superversivesf.com/2018/01/24/8282/

Thomas Davidsmeier first novel, Blessings and Trials, will be released by Superversive Press this Easter.

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Defending the Wood Perilous

Posted January 26, 2018 By John C Wright

The first part of what promises to be the most insightful essay you are likely to read this year on this topic has been posted. Since I have seen the whole in first draft, I can promise you the whole will prove well worth reading, if you want to know the truth about what is going on in the Fantasy genre and why, and to who’s benefit it is.
http://www.superversivesf.com/2018/01/25/defending-wood-perilous-part-one-live-fairytale/

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Swan Knight’s Son Chosen for Charity Comic!

Posted January 25, 2018 By John C Wright

According to Vox Popoli:

Now, here is the interesting question. Since Swan Knight’s Son appeared to be the favorite of the backers thus far, I sent a copy to Chuck Dixon to see if it would require five or six issues to adapt properly, thinking that this might leave two issues free for a novella or a pair of one-offs. Such as, perhaps, One Bright Star or The Wardog’s Coin. Chuck’s opinion was that the book would actually work best as four issues, which means that if the backers wish, all three books of the trilogy could be done in the space of the two graphic novels. Presumably Swan Knight’s Son and Swan Knight’s Sword, with Feast of the Elfs being divided between them.

Now, I know devoting both graphic novels to John C. Wright’s excellent fantasy series would probably disappoint those who would prefer to see The Stars Came Back or Rocky Mountain Retribution, but then, the campaign isn’t over yet, so it’s entirely possible that we’ll have 18 issues or more to contemplate; after all, we still have four days to go and Stretch Goal 4 is less than $15k away.
For more information about the campaign:

There is still time to support the campaign:

Will Caligan’s Comic

 

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Rock Lobster!

Posted January 25, 2018 By John C Wright

More on Dr. Jordan Peterson and Fake News Newman

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 34, Two Hundred Fifty Million Years of Woe, is now posted on Patreon.

Episode 34 Two Hundred Fifty Million Years of Woe

In this episode, Colonel Lost hears of the abyss of time, and learns of the crimes nine races of man accomplished over mighty eons, and knows the appalling stakes of his quest.

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Join Us In Escaping Atheism

Posted January 24, 2018 By John C Wright

Here is the live link. Join us. Leave questions and comments in the chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaHeXzVpxs

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Planetary: Mercury

Posted January 24, 2018 By John C Wright

New from Superversive Press:

In the Palace of Promised Immortality is a short story telling of Circe, the time traveler’s daughter, on they day before her wedding. It is a tale of how her past will change her future. Time travel is but one sort of travel, one sort of magic, sacred to the god of travelers, the god of magicians.

It is but one of the offerings appearing in the first of a new anthology series Superversive Press is launching one book per planet. (And, yes, you scoundrels, Pluto is included!)

Planetary Anthology: Mercury

MERCURY!

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Wicked Wolves, Falling Skies, and Unseen Witches

Posted January 23, 2018 By John C Wright

Rarely do I have the pleasure of posting a link to someone more intelligent than I. Jordan Peterson has a mind of rare precision and stunning insight. All the lauds and applauds I have heard of late him receive, I hereby echo.

This is an interview he did today talking about his recent interview with an evil Morlock named Newman, who was possessed by a spirit of deceit, and was exorcised by the spirit of logic, evidence, reason. We so often wish it would happen. It so rarely does. This is the after action report, and some remarks on the counter attack currently being waged:

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Wright Wiki!

Posted January 23, 2018 By John C Wright

Some fans, not long ago, started a wiki page devoted to your works on Fandom (formerly Wikia) at http://scifiwright.wikia.com.

On fan wrote and asked this:

The site has languished for a few years, but in honor of your completion of Count to the Eschaton I’d like to spiff-up the site to make it a useful reference to readers of Eschaton and your other works, and an alluring enticement to potential new fans. I’ve already made a start on updating some pages related to the Eschaton series: http://scifiwright.wikia.com/wiki/Count_to_the_Eschaton

It takes an active community to maintain and expand a wiki. If you have no objections, I’d appreciate it if you would post a link to the wiki on your blog with an invitation to interested fans to visit the wiki and help improve it.

This post you read now is the post as requested, and the invitation is open.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet XXXIV

Posted January 22, 2018 By John C Wright

The pro-life march, consisting of happy families with healthy babies singing hymns and saying the Pledge of Allegiance, fell on the same weekend as the anti-life march, where female antihumans wearing their vagina on their head bawled, screaming, and puked out such crass and filthy obscenities, that no description can be offered here, on this family friendly journal.

Let no more be said of this: anyone interested in the psychopathology of feminism can look up for himself what was said or written on their signs.

He may contemplate for himself the question of why women, known throughout all prior ages of Western history to be the vestal virgins guarding the public decency, being delicate rather than vulgar, spiritual rather than crass, praying for enemies rather than cursing and hating neighbors, husbands, sons, and fellow citizens, refined rather than whorish, have entirely reversed this.

For one of my novels, I took the trouble to look up the swearwords and vulgar language used by real cowboys in real life back a century ago. Such language was, in that day, so crude and blasphemous that it could not be heard near women and children. Compared to what these modern ladies of the Left routinely utter as they blaspheme and curse, the rough side of low-class filthy cowhand talk was obscenely mild.

In other news, the Dems rage-quit the government budget, shutting down the government for all of one day, before caving. I have never seen the GOP win the tug of war involved in a government shutdown at any point in my adult life. Always before, the GOP would simply surrendered  preemptively, usually with alarming alacrity, weeping in fear, cringing, and soiling themselves in the most unmanly and craven fashion imaginable.

It is almost as if the kingmakers among the donor class select GOP political candidates based primarily on their lack of backbone, in order to ensure a gormless pliancy to the kingmakers.

Another victory.

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