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Archive for May, 2018
The Phantom Time Hypothesis
Posted May 31, 2018 By John C WrightRed Pill Religion
Posted May 30, 2018 By John C WrightVampirism and the Occult in Pop Culture. Please join us tonight at 8.00. You may use the link below to enter the chatroom.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 52, Duel in the Dark
Posted May 30, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 52, Duel in the Dark, is now posted on Patreon.
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost discovers the drawbacks of fighting a giant twice his height and reach, and four times his mass.
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The Weakness of Strong Female Characters
Posted May 30, 2018 By John C WrightFive years ago, I wrote an extensive essay on the role of heroes and heroines in science fiction and fantasy, under the deliberately provocative title Saving SCIENCE FICTION From STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS.
My point was rather less provocative: I held that in a story any character, male or female, displaying the admirable virtues of heroism should act in character, and neither be a effete male nor a macho female. The flaws of one sex do not become virtues merely by being swapped to the opposite sex.
I was frankly disappointed that not a single critic of the essay answered, addressed, or offered any argument against any points made within the essay. They all reacted like screaming ninnies to the title, and none of them actually read it.
In honor of Galatea of Authentic Observer, who addresses the same theme, I here republish the sprawling essay gathered now into one page for your ease and delight of reading.
Part One
Anyone reading reviews or discussions of science fiction has no doubt has come across the oddity that most discussions of female characters in science fiction center around whether the female character is strong or not.
As far as recollection serves, not a single discussion touches on whether the female character is feminine or not.
These discussions have an ulterior motive.
Either by the deliberate intent of the reviewer, or by the deliberate intention of the mentors, trendsetters, gurus, and thought-police to whom the unwitting reviewer has innocently entrusted the formation of his opinions, the reviewer who discusses the strength of female characters is fighting his solitary duel or small sortie in the limited battlefield of science fiction literature in the large and longstanding campaign of the Culture Wars.
He is on the side, by the way, fighting against culture.
Hence, he fights in favor of barbarism, hence against beauty in art and progress in science, and, hence the intersection of these two topics, which means, against science fiction.
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Masculine Women and Disempowered Men
Posted May 29, 2018 By John C WrightLong time readers know my opinions on allegedly strong female characters in fiction. Hence it is a delight for me to hear similar opinions explained so clearly, spritefully, and thoroughly, by so charming a spokesman.
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The Imprisonment and Likely Death of Tommy
Posted May 29, 2018 By John C WrightFor those of you who have not heard, Tommy Robinson, founder of the populist English Defence League, was arrested by police while streaming a Facebook live video outside a what the media politely calls a “grooming” trial in Leeds on Friday morning.Robinson was taken immediately to prison.The charge was breach of the peace.
“Grooming” the practice of preparing a child for a life as a catamite. A Muslim gang was on trial for raping, sodomizing, and selling hundreds of victims into sexual slavery, some as young as eleven. It was to protect their rights that the police acted with alacrity to prevent Mr. Robinson from speaking in public.
That the Muslim gangs in prison will murder him is almost certain. The court in this case enacted a death penalty, using the flimsiest of figleaf excuses. Outrage is widespread, and deservedly so.
I have nothing to say that other conservatives have not said better. England is fallen.
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Tonight at Nine
Posted May 27, 2018 By John C WrightLooking forward to this.
Declan Finn and Jasyn Jones, Max Kolbe and I will be in a roundtable discussion of Social Justice and its Jihad against geekdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Help Needed — Fanboys to the rescue!
Posted May 27, 2018 By John C WrightHey folks,
Jagi, here.
So…several of you made excellent suggestions regarding the idea of us contacting Youtubers who are speaking out against SJW Star Wars and telling them about Starquest and our upcoming Starquest campaign.
John and I are good at many things but…apparently reaching Youtubers is not one of them. So far, our efforts have failed abysmally. ;-(
Do any of you interact with any of these folks? Would any of you be willing to contact them, leave messages on their blog, etc.? You can share the original post with them and the first episode. Let them know that it is being written up as a new series. (Also, it is easier to hawk someone else’s stuff than one’s own. )
The Review of the Movie We’ve All Been Waiting For
Here were some reference links one of you kindly left for us:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvVQIAfsGwzrfPLxiaIG8g/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUZAUoL2_bd9cR8R5T_iSlQ/videos
And…
Thank you in advance!
And God bless!
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Some Facts about Dems
Posted May 27, 2018 By John C WrightNow would be as good a time as any to remind any readers who may otherwise be tempted mechanically to recite Democrat talking points about the institutional or endemic racism in America about certain facts in history.
A brief contemplation of these facts will lead one to wonder, if racism is endemic to America, which political party has operated consistently for the last 150 years to oppose, undermine, and overthrow that racism, and which party has done the opposite.
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Make Outer Space Great Again!
Posted May 25, 2018 By John C Wright
It is TIME for a CHANGE!
I am pleased and proud to announce the onset of a long-awaited campaign to quit my dayjob, take up my pen, light it on fire, and ignite the slumbering spirit of fandom.
As of this day, the campaign to Make Outer Space Great Again begins, and you can be part of it.
I calculate I produce a novel every sixty days, starting with the pulp material I have previously published in serial format on this site, and then later branching out to other works.
I am particularly eager to finish the first volume of STARQUEST which is my answer to the disappointed and ruination a certain Mouse has visited on a long loved favorite franchise we all know and love.
On Freestartr, a website blessedly free from Big Brother and devoted to absolute freedom of speech, we begin the first of two funding drives.
https://freestartr.com/?post_type=project&p=225819
This first seeks monthly contributions to pay the monthly mortgage and buy a cup of coffee, so I can have a roof overhead and a cup of joe in hand while typing like a mad mantis to delight the souls and enrich the lives of my beloved readers.
The second will concentrate on getting the basics together for STARQUEST, cover art and such, and it will be a one time deal.
Here is the pitch:
The Pulp Revolt starts here! You have nothing to lose but your yawns!
Goal: to fund SF Grandmaster John C Wright penning 6 books year, and make space great again!
First is LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT, a tale of the dusk of time!
Description: A quarter billion years hence, man is hunted to extinction by the mutants and posthumans unwise meddling with nature has brought forth.
UFO abductions are real! Chasing a flying saucer through the storms above the Bermuda Triangle, aviator, adventurer and big game hunter Col. Preston Lost falls though a hole in spacetime, and emerges above a volcano-lit hellscape swarming with dinosaurs. Beneath a giant moon, all continents are merged into one: Pangaea Ultima.
The hunter becomes the hunted! Giants and terrors pursue Preston Lost across jungle, lava, and precipice, seeking from him the secret of the Time Tesserect, which he is destined to destroy. But first he must rescue Cynisca, the last princess of Atlantis, torn, as he was, from her own time, to be enslaved amid the savage ruins of a posthistoric future!
Men and beasts from all eras, ages, and eons have been gathered at the end of time to serve the sinister purposes of the Watchers, the eighth and penultimate race of man. Artificial evolution has reached a wretched dead end. Does Preston Lost, a man from the dawn of man, hold hope for a tomorrow beyond tomorrow?
The first novel in the ongoing series is RUNAGATE OF PANGAEA. The second is TERRORS OF PANGAEA.
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Not Tired of Winning Yet XLII
Posted May 24, 2018 By John C WrightI am not a sports guy. I care nothing for sports, and I simply do not have the gene that can make me care about them. But, like a colorblind man who respects the ability of his fellowmen to admire rainbows and sunsets, I admire the qualities of team spirit, fan loyalty, sportsmanship and fairplay which athletic sports in a healthy society encourage and create. (In an unhealthy society, winning becomes an idol, and sportsmanship is discouraged in favor of winning for its own sake, boasting, egotism and insolence. See Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali for details.)
It is not my world. Nonetheless, it is with elation that I can report another win for Donald. J. Trump:
The NFL will enact a national anthem policy for 2018 that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Wednesday.
1. All team and league personnel on the field shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
2.The Game Operations Manual will be revised to remove the requirement that all players be on the field for the anthem.
3. Personnel who choose not to stand for the anthem may stay in the locker room or in a similar location off the field until after the anthem has been performed.
4. A club will be fined by the League if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
5. Each club may develop its own work rules, consistent with the above principles, regarding its personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
6. The commissioner will impose appropriate discipline on league personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
Short version: if you hate the flag of your country that make you a rich-as-Croesus spoiled brat sports star, you can keep your ugly mug in the locker room, but you cannot show your hatred in public without a fine.
Chalk this win to Trump. Can you imagine, under Hillary, that this issue would have even seen the light of day?
Now, keep in mind the Left hate the NFL for the same reason they hate the Boy Scouts, and they hate unborn babies. It is the same reason Gollum hates sunlight.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 51, Slaying in the Slave Pen
Posted May 23, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 51, Slaying in the Slave Pen, is now posted on Patreon.
Episode 51 Slaying in the Slave Pen
In this exciting episode, amid chaos and uproar, Colonel Lost must face the Mighty One seeking him. Bloodshed erupts.
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Red Pill Religion
Posted May 23, 2018 By John C WrightTonight on Red Pill Religion we discuss yet more reasons why atheism is morally corrupt, mentally incoherent, socially uncivil, and artistically bankrupt.
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Pulp Magazine Archives
Posted May 23, 2018 By John C WrightLet me bring this link to your attention. It is the Pulp Magazine archives:
https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?&sort=-downloads&page=2
I must say, however, that this particular page opens up to magazines from the 1970’s that I have on my bookshelf even now. I may be old, but I am not that old. Most Sci-Fi historians (if such an absurdity can be imagined) would, I assume, place the end of the glory days of pulp somewhere around the beginning of the Golden Age of Hard SF, early in 1940, when John W Campbell Jr took over Astounding, and brought aboard Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and A.E. van Vogt. By 1970, the pulps properly so called had been gone from the newsstands for thirty years.
However, if you scroll down, I can personally recommend WORLDS OF IF from February 1972, particularly ‘Patterns of Chaos’ by Colin Kapp.
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The Lament of Prometheus
Posted May 22, 2018 By John C WrightVoyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, first published in 1920, is a book that has always fascinated me. It is a story of a magnificent failure.
I am not the only one fascinated by this blasphemous book. C.S. Lewis, and Colin Wilson were likewise, as you can tell from their own works, as was Michael Moorcock. Harold Bloom, the famous critic, in his sole attempt at fiction writing penned a sequel or re-imagining called Flight to Lucifer (which he since denounced).
Colin Wilson declares it to be the “greatest novel of the twentieth century”, and C.S. Lewis says it is the book that inspired him to write science fiction:
“From Lindsay I first learned what other planets in fiction are really good for: for spiritual adventures. Only they can satisfy the craving which sends our imaginations off the earth.”
It is the tale of a Englishman named Maskull, an everyman figure, transported via the occult means of backward light-rays to the giant planet Tormance circling the double star Arcturus, seeking a godlike but hidden figure named Surtur, who may be the devil, or the divine fire hidden in every man.
Even to this day, I hold it up as the most imaginative work in science fiction or fantasy, describing things that are literally unimaginable, such as a third positive sex for mankind, aside from male and female, or two new primary colors of a second spectrum.
As a child, I was delighted in the sheer weirdness of the conceit; as a youth I wondered about the symbolism and philosophy; as an adult, for better or worse, I see clearly the impious and morbid message hidden at the heart of this Gnostic allegory.
I have written a whole novel-length book on the subject of Lindsay’s Voyage to Arcturus, it magnificence, and its failure, which explores the themes and symbolism of this forgotten masterpiece. Read the remainder of this entry »
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