Descent into Darkness
The next installment of the most important column on the topic you are likely to read this year is up:
Defending the Wood Perilous — Part Two: Descent into Darkness
“In the story, particularly, as in fabulous fictions of the same kind, there are two considerations most useful to notice. The first is that they show that evildoers, even if they seem to escape a thousand times, always get their punishment; the second, that they show many innocents placed in great danger often saved against all hope.”
Part one is here: http://www.superversivesf.com/2018/01/25/defending-wood-perilous-part-one-live-fairytale/
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
