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Archive for November, 2018
Third Stretch Goal Reached!
Posted November 30, 2018 By John C WrightSecond Stretch Goal Unlocked!
Posted November 30, 2018 By John C WrightCover Reveal for New Jon Del Arroz Space Opera–a Perk with Starquest!
Posted November 28, 2018 By John C WrightJagi here:
The STARQUEST Indiegogo campaign is just over $150 away
from unlocking the second stretch goal!
Should we succeed, every backer of the Templar Squire level and above will gain the award of a pre-publication review copy of the new Jon Del Arroz space opera, coming soon from Silver Empire.
The amazing cover of which is revealed…HERE:
So come back STARQUEST — and get two excellent space operas!
Also noted, Jon Del Arroz’s new short story collection has just hit the shelves:
Filed in Announcement | Tagged: Jon Del Arroz, Justified, Make Science Fiction Great Again, Make Space Opera Great Again!, Starquest
Red Pill Religion
Posted November 28, 2018 By John C WrightJoin me and Max Kolbe discussing the logic of religion and the illogic of atheism.
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The Last Report on Unit Twenty-Two
Posted November 28, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent is still on hiatus. Unexpected events have thrown my normally predictable writing schedule into chaos, not to mention the delightful challenge of the Starquest project.
Let me be chary and conservative with my promises, and say that the adventures of Colonel Preston Lost in the posthuman wilderness of Pangaea will resume in January with the new year.
In the meanwhile, by way of apology to any exasperated readers, here is a poignant and brief story of mine published in So It Begins, edited by my friend Mike McPhail. This is a smaller anthology, which even thorough fans might have overlooked. Read the remainder of this entry »
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Starquest — First Stretch Goal Funded!
Posted November 25, 2018 By John C WrightThe first stretch goal has been unlocked!
And it is: a foreword by Nick Cole
We are more than half way to the second stretch goal–which is Starquest, Episode (book) Two: Shadow Fox verses the Inscrutable Illuminati of Andromeda! ( or perhaps Shadow Fox vs. the Inner Circle of Outer Space? Title still in progress)
With this, Templar Squire backers and above will get a before-publication review copy of the next space opera by fellow Make Space Opera Great Again author, Jon Del Arroz.
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Starquest Funds!
Posted November 23, 2018 By John C Wright
Starquest Indiegogo Campaign
Jagi, here!
We have reached our first goal–this means Starquest Episode (book) One is a reality!
Help us spread the word and unlock the first stretch goal: a forward from Galaxy’s Edge author, Nick Cole! We are already nearly halfway there!
Here is some information on what you can do to spread the word.
We will draw our first two gratitude gift winners tomorrow! Thank you all so much for helping to make this become a reality!
Have a lovely rest of your Thanksgiving holiday weekend!
Red Pill Religion
Posted November 21, 2018 By John C WrightTonight Max Kolbe and I discuss the importance of thankfulness to mental health and moral wellbeing. Please join us.
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The Scepter of Nowhere
Posted November 21, 2018 By John C WrightThe hiatus of LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT continues, as my time is consumed now with STARQUEST. Soon I hope to return to regular episodes.
One of my rarer offerings, this story first appeared in Dark Discoveries: Issue 31, edited by James R. Beach. It is a quarterly magazine, which I believe is still in business.
The Scepter of Nowhere
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It happened so quickly. We used to be human beings, you see.
When I heard the bomb go off, I ran to the door at the end of the corridor. It had two narrow slits for windows, one in each leaf of the door.
Outside was an alley leading to a chainlink fence. Beyond the fence was a rubbish yard. At the other end of the alley two cars were parked, bumper to bumper. The wall opposite was pierced with countless dark windows, and the roof was crenellated with chimneys and utility boxes.
Something in the scene terrified me. It was automatic, the echo of many dark evenings in missions in dangerous parts of the world. Later, I saw dimly with my mind what my instinct saw clearly: the alley was a killing ground, with no escape route. The cars were a choke-point, either wired to explode, or holding gunmen. Snipers in the windows, or in the broken ground on the far side of the chainlink fence would have perfect concealment and a clear shot at anyone trapped in the alley, or trying to climb the fence.
What about the other way? I ran back up the corridor, but it was too late.
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The Last Feudal Island
Posted November 20, 2018 By John C WrightI used the island of Sark in the English Channel as the location for my fantasy book IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY, taking, as authors must, a great deal of poetical license in describing it.
I also fell in love with it. I hope Dame Sybil will forgive me the licenses I took by inventing a make believe heir to her position, and various murders and wild events a story needs. The rural, unspoilt, unlit island is precisely the sort of spot many a writer, weary of the frenetic modern world, wishes he could live, myself not the least.
However, the most fantastic and unbelievable things about the island are not my inventions, but real. Here is an article about one aspect of the history of Sark.
If I may quote
The place is a time capsule. Cars are banned. Residents get around by bicycle, and the local ambulance and fire trucks are pulled by tractors. With little noise pollution, the island’s soundscape is a symphony of coastal winds, crashing waves, the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages, and the rustle of waving fields bursting with whimsically named flowers: foxgloves, toadflax, dog violets, and oxeye daisies. Since there are no streetlights on Sark, the Milky Way gleams on moonless nights.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/559912/dame-sybil-hathaway-sark-feudal-lord-outclassed-nazis-ww2
More of the article is below:
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Starquest Crowdfunder Goes Live!
Posted November 20, 2018 By John C Wright
And, YES, there will be space princesses!
Details and prize descriptions are on the Campaign Page:
http://www.scifiwright.com/starquest-campaign/
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Filed in Announcement, Jagi | Tagged: Andromeda, Space Opera, Space Pirates, Space Princesses, Star Maidens, Starquest, Templar Knights
In Memory of Aretha Franklin
Posted November 17, 2018 By John C WrightThe Queen of Soul has passed away.
May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
This clip is from THE BLUES BROTHERS. She is here seen opposite Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, great guitarist who died in june, 2018. On sax is “Blue Lou” Marini.
Other titans in the field also cameo’d in this film, including James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway and John Lee Hooker, but for me, this scene stole the show.
The song is ‘Think’ from her 1968 album Aretha Now.
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Though I Speak with the Tongue of Angels
Posted November 15, 2018 By John C WrightTheophilus writes that he has come across an argument proposing that
since all human languages are designed to speak about concepts within this universe, and God is outside the universe, we cannot say anything sensible about God, whether true or false. The statements “God exists” and “God does not exist” are both nonsense.
What I find fascinating about that argument is that it presents a serious problem for all religions except Christianity.
My comment: The argument does not seem to makes sense on its own terms.
Men are either wholly natural things, that is, entirely explained in literal terms by materialistic processes, or they are not.
If not, then at least part of man, or part of the explanation of what he is, is supernatural, that is, non-literal, more than materialistic.
Only in the first case would it be true that human language would be a wholly human invention limited by human experience such that it could not refer to anything outside our experience, even by analogy.
In the second case, nothing prevents God from breathing into the human person the living souls which, being supernatural in origin, give us a set of experiences and concept that are true and meaningful and yet which cannot be reduce to literal materialistic experiences.
An analogue: Simplicio the fish says to his fellow fish that since all fishy languages are designed to speak about concepts within the sea, and the stars are outside the sea, we fish cannot say anything sensible about the stars, whether true or false. Even to say the stars exist is nonsense.
A second fish, Sophius, rises to the surface and sees the stars.
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Mark Judge
Posted November 12, 2018 By John C WrightIf you remember the news from last month, the Democrats and the Media (but I repeat myself) decided to slander and libel Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by leveling the most inflammatory imaginable charges, including that he ran a gang-rape ring as a Freshman in college, but with no evidence to support even the basic facts alleged.
One of his friends from school who was likewise accused, and whose life was likewise set into chaos, a man named Mark Judge, happens to be an acquaintance of mine.
Right now he is trying to pay his lawyer’s bills and put his life back in order, and he prevailed upon me to post a link to his crowdfunding.
https://fundingmorality.com/project/view/help-mark-judge.html
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Not Tired of Winning Yet LIII
Posted November 7, 2018 By John C WrightThe Democratic senators who voted against Kavanaugh’s confirmation and who then lost their seats during Tuesday’s midterm elections included Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and Bill Nelson of Florida.
And the lone Democrat who voted for Brett Kavanaugh – West Virginia’s Joe Manchin – won reelection by three points.
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