Archive for April, 2020

On the Objective and Subjective

Posted April 4, 2020 By John C Wright

We live in an age when subjectivity is adored as an idol.

Sadly, this adoration is merely a logical error, simple enough to rectify, but one which will rarely if ever be rectified, because subjectivity makes every man’s own, personal willpower into a god.

If truth is subjective, then you and you alone can define what is your truth, and all attempts to instruct or correct your errors can be dismissed and dodged as insidious forms of oppression.

Likewise, if virtue is subjective, then God is a tyrant, and all things are permitted.

Likewise, if beauty is subjective, God is ugly, no dignity need be granted the works of our ancestors, and no tastes need be cultivated: whatever produces momentary pleasure is called beautiful, or virtuous, or true, and any sort of logic or consistency need not be regarded.

In such a world, Gollum who cannot eat the elfin waybread, or see the glorious sunlight, without tasting ashed or weeping tears of pain, is a gourmet and aesthete equal to any other.

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Gods of Pangaea!

Posted April 3, 2020 By John C Wright

And the last Lost on the Last Continent book is live!

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 Gods of Pangaea on Amazon!

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Conan: Jewels of Gwahlur

Posted April 1, 2020 By John C Wright

Jewels of Gwahlur was first published in Weird Tales magazine in March 1935, coming three months A Witch Shall Be Born. It is the fourteenth published story in the Conan canon.

This tale has been republished under the names The Teeth of Gwahlur and The Servants of Bit-Yakin.

Spoilers below.

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The Space Despot’s Beautiful Daughter, Episode 04 The Sea Monster Strikes, is now posted.

Death from the Dark Waters!

Episode 04: The Sea Monster Strikes

One twitch of the slender yet alluring trigger finger of the wicked yet desirable Princess Aspasia of Io, and Jett Hazard is most certainly dead! 

Why does she hesitate to shoot the well-muscled, broad-shouldered, shirtless yet ruggedly handsome Earthman? Could his chaste but fearless heart belong to another?

Look out, Jett! Other deadly dangers loom! What is that ominous trail of bubbles approaching through the deadly waters of the dark river? 

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