Archive for September, 2019

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 100 Murder of The High Master , is now posted.

Episode 100 Murder of The High Master

Colonel Lost confronts the bridegroom of his beloved, and the guard of a thousand gargantuan warlord. All hope is lost! Why, then, does the lovely Cynisca smile and say the foe is already defeated?

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Justified by Jon Del Arroz goes live!

Posted September 10, 2019 By John C Wright

Jagi, here.
The always entertaining Mr. Del Arroz kindly made this book available in its early stages to as a Perk for the Starquest campaign.* Now Justified is live!  Isn’t that a magnificent cover!

To save a world…
…he must rely on God.

After years of fighting for justice with his deadly nanotech, Templar Drin abandons his post, crash landing on a desert world controlled by a tyrannical alien empire. Its inhabitants are forced into slavery, broken where a once-proud race cultivated its lands.

For the first time in Drin’s life, he has no backup, no support, none of his brothers.

He stands alone against evil.

Drin must face overwhelming odds to liberate millions of slaves from their captors and bring faith to a downtrodden world. But in his way stands the most dangerous weapon in the galaxy.

Can Drin use his Templar training to survive?

Fans of Star Wars and Warhammer 40K will love Justified, the new military science fiction epic from #1 Bestselling author, Jon Del Arroz.

See Justified on Amazon  

 

  • Justified went out to backers a month or so ago. If you believe that you should have received it with your Starquest pledge but have not, please let us know.

 

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Ozymandias

Posted September 10, 2019 By John C Wright

Shelley’s famous poem can crop up in the oddest places.

From the Epilogue of AVENGER’S issue 54.

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Thanks so much to everyone here who has made this possible!!!

Our Indiegogo campaign for The Art and Craft of Writing is nearly funded! This means that we will be bringing to you at least the first few videos of this class in how to understand the nature of storytelling and how to make certain your story is reaching your reader.
Please help keep the momentum up by sharing!  We have some cool Stretch Goal rewards, if we can reach them!

So many authors are in despair. Stories live in their hearts and minds, but they do not know what to do to make their dream become reality.

As an editor, I noticed that 90% of what I was telling my better writers was the same three things.

This course is based on those things. It has been designed to help you learn the secrets the best authors already know about how to captivate your readers and bring your stories to life.

To this end, Superversive Press wants to provide courses on how to write—providing all the tools you need to bring your writing up to the next level!  Our first course is:

The Art and Craft of Writing

Books are enchanting. They are like a draught of strong wine. A good story sweeps us off our feet and carries us to true love, to far off places, to Narnia or Barsoom. With stories, we can reach others, lift them out of sorrow, sometimes even sway the course of lives, or nations.

All authors yearn to bring to vivid life the stories that burn deep within their hearts. They wish not only to see them given life but also to share them and, perhaps, touch the heart of another.

This course will teach you to bring those stories to life!

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The Shadowcast Knows!

Posted September 8, 2019 By John C Wright

All faithful agents of the master of darkness, The Shadow, should heed, and perhaps subscribe, to the Shadowcast by Razorfist:

My fellow partisans in the Pulp Art Revival and the Space Princess Movement in literature please take heed: The Shadow involved some of the rich roots of our genre.

PROFANITY WARNING: there is no profanity in this podcast whatsoever, so it is really hard to believe it is he, but, rest assured, that is the voice of our own beloved Daniel Harris the Rageholic.

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Red Pill Religion: PX and ET

Posted September 6, 2019 By John C Wright

This week, the irreplaceable Max Kolbe and I discuss UFOs, flying demons, tricky elfs, science fiction, fantasy, and whether or not there is life on other planets. I pause to mock the Drake Equation.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 99 Under the Great Dome of the Science Gods , is now posted.

Episode 99 Under the Great Dome of the Science Gods

Colonel Lost enters battle, and the hellish truth of the unseen allies of the Eighth Men, the science gods, comes to light.

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Words on A Page — Hope for the Hearts of Authors in Despair

Posted September 4, 2019 By John C Wright

Jagi, here.

Sharing the opening intro to The Art and Craft of Writing, which is currently in an Indiegogo campaign.

Words on a Page

All writing is just words on a page.

What does this mean, and why does it matter to us? To answer that question, I must tell you a bit of a story.

When I was young, I was in awe of the ability of good authors to transport us to an entirely different life. Reading the greats was glorious but also occasionally intimidating. A good book can make us sympathize first with a frightened rabbit and then with a hungry fox. They call upon us to “burn with the bliss and suffer the sorrow of all mankind.”

I loved what I read but I despaired that I could ever accomplish anything half so wonderful. I feared I would never figure out the mystery of how my favorite authors conveyed so much.

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It is not Unjust that the King be Deposed

Posted September 3, 2019 By John C Wright

A reader with the sapient sure-to-win name of Sophia’s Favorite remarks:

“This country owes far more to medieval common law,  though it expresses it in then-current terms, many of them also used by liberals, than to “classical” liberalism…”

Interesting. You are the only person other than me I have ever heard say this.

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