To one whose mouth is bigger than his entire brain…
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Archive for February, 2020
I Dedicate the Song this to Bernie Sanders
Posted February 28, 2020 By John C WrightHard Hearts and Soft Heads
Posted February 28, 2020 By John C WrightA friend of mine reports that after viewing STAR TREK: PICARD, he comes closer to understanding two quotes from CS Lewis
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
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For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.
I would emphasis the line: By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes.
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Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 19 The Quelling
Posted February 26, 2020 By John C WrightWherefore by their Fruits, Episode 19 The Quelling, is now posted.
In which Princox, out of twig as a kettle, finds the Captain to be a gull bubble. Princox rooks him, poking a barking iron into his flabby bumfiddle, even with the captain’s beadles, bailiffs and becks all about. That is one dimber sharper!
This is our penultimate episode. Keep your eager eyes in this space for news next week of what rip-roaring tale of outer space adventure awaits us in times to come!
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Conan: A Witch Shall Be Born
Posted February 22, 2020 By John C WrightA Witch Shall Be Born was first published in Weird Tales magazine in December of 1934, coming one month after the final installment of People of the Black Circle. It is the thirteenth published story in the Conan canon.
It is also, alas, one of the weaker and more forgettable Conan stories to spring from the masterful pen of Robert E. Howard, but, ironically, it contains one of the strongest and most memorable Conan scenes.
I have no doubt that every fan of Conan already knows which scene I mean. Since it is, perhaps, the best Conan scene ever, it was lifted wholly from the story and placed into the John Milius’ 1982 film CONAN THE BARBARIAN.
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At Long Lost! Giants of Pangaea!
Posted February 21, 2020 By John C Wright
Colonel Preston Lost didn’t think of himself as reckless. He believed in preparation, proper equipment, and patience in stalking the prey. But, in reality, he was not a cautious man. Having followed a spaceship into the black storm clouds above the Bermuda Triangle, he flew through a time portal to the end of days, and crash-landed on Pangaea Ultima with few supplies and no way of returning home.
Lost is a man of many talents, though, and anything should be possible for him. Having found himself in a world at war, he decides to embark on a journey to set things right. Little things like uniting the races of Man and freeing the slaves should be easy for a man of many talents, right?
But the prophecies say he is also a man of importance, and the rulers of the land are willing to do anything to get their hands on him. Having made inroads on race relations—getting a Third Man to talk to a Seventh—he just needs to find the love of his life, the Atlantean Cynisca, and free the slaves from the races of Man that don’t want to give them up.
Can Lost stay out of the clutches of the Watchers long enough to accomplish his goals, or, this time, is it possible his talents won’t be enough?
See Giants of Pangaea on Amazon
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Welcome to the Twenty First Century
Posted February 21, 2020 By John C WrightIn the Year 2000 there was an IBM commercial where actor Avery Brooks was asking about the promised technological wonders we had been promised, particularly flying cars.
One promise is coming true.
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Marymae Kickstarter from our favorite dancing cow (girl)!
Posted February 20, 2020 By John C WrightJagi here.
Some of you may recall the lovely fan whose victory dance upon the occasion of John winning the SF Dragon was featured on this blog.
I call upon you all to support that very same dancing girl–with or without her cow suit–in her Kicstarter as she raises funds to finish illustrating a delightful children’s book (which she wrote at age 15.)
For more information, see Marymae and the Nightmare Man on Kickstarter!
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 18 The Query
Posted February 19, 2020 By John C WrightWherefore by their Fruits, Episode 18 The Query, is now posted.
In which aged Iatro reveals the sad truth behind the empty promises of the Futurians of his day and age, and also, meseemeth, dear reader, your own.
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Hope in a Hopeless World
Posted February 19, 2020 By John C WrightA reader with the magnificent name of Zaklog the Great asks:
“What do you make of Tolkien’s view of history as one long defeat only redeemed by occasional eucatastrophes?”
The question is a deep one, but I am not sure what you are asking. But let me venture an answer nonetheless.
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A Request to my Gracious Readers
Posted February 18, 2020 By John C WrightMy unfortunate sense of honor, or perhaps it is pride, does not allow me to ban Gnos Tic because he has broken none of my rules, but I would like my readers no longer to read nor respond to him, since the poor man cannot even cobble together a halfhearted argument on the behalf of the nihilism and evil he pretends to uphold. He has as much as admitted his purpose for being here is sadism, which we should not encourage nor tempt him to indulge.
Please block his comments, so that you will not see them, or, if you see them, do not reply.
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Stop Victim Disarmament in Virginia
Posted February 14, 2020 By John C WrightI am passing this along for any of my kind readers who are Virginians:
Virginians,
Time is short. House Bill 961, the Northam Gun Ban, is in the State Senate Judiciary Committee, and could be on the agenda for a vote this week.
We must not be the generation of Virginians that allows liberty to be destroyed.
It is that simple.
We need every single patriot to act now, and work to defeat House Bill 961. As I type this we are beginning to deploy tens of thousands of phone calls and it is vital that you act as well.
From banning adjustable stocks, forward grips, standard capacity magazines, barrel shrouds and a whole host of semi automatic firearms, House Bill 961 is nothing short of tyranny. And we need your help to stop it.
There are several key actions you must take to STOP the Gun Ban, and we need every single one of you to help us.
First, you need to call the following State Senators and tell them they must vote against House Bill 961 in any form-
– Jennifer Boysko (D-33)- 804-698-7533
– Creigh Deeds (D-25)- 804-698-7525
– John Edwards (D-21)- 804-698-7521
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Transhuman and Subhuman–Now in Paper!
Posted February 13, 2020 By John C Wright
“Shoot him with an elf arrow!”
Learn why this may be author John C. Wright’s most famous line!
A collection of brilliant and thought-provoking essays by the science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright. From the history of the Golden Age of science fiction to the ideology of the gender wars presently dividing hard science fiction from urban fantasy-romance, Wright’s commentary is always intelligent, observant, and precisely to the point.
In the 16 essays that make up the collection, Wright addresses a wide spectrum of ideas. He considers the darker possibilities of transhumanism, provides a professorial lesson on the mechanics of writing fiction, explains the noble purpose underlying science fiction, and shows how the genre’s obsession with strong female characters is nothing less than an attack on human nature. In every essay, Wright exhibits his compassion, his humanity, and his deep and abiding love for literature.
John C. Wright has been described as one of the most important and audacious authors in science fiction today. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 science fiction readers, he was chosen as the sixth-greatest living science fiction writer.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 17 The Shriving
Posted February 12, 2020 By John C WrightWherefore by their Fruits, Episode 17 The Shriving, is now posted.
In which Princox partakes of a mystery, the lore of Saint Isidore is made manifest, and old paradoxes are resolved.
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Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 16 The Snaphance
Posted February 12, 2020 By John C WrightWherefore by their Fruits, Episode 16 The Snaphance, is now posted.
In which Princox arms himself. Things are not always as first they seem.
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Not Tired of Winning Yet CIII
Posted February 8, 2020 By John C WrightVindman gone. Not clear yet whether he quit or was fired, but it was reported that he was escorted off the premises.
Drain the swamp one swamp beast at a time.
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