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KICKSTARTER: Starquest Needs Cover Art!

Posted June 10, 2025 By John C Wright

Ladies and gentlemen, time to pass the hat.

MAKING SPACE OPERA GREAT AGAIN! — More Covers Needed!

Announcing Kickstarter fundraiser to fund cover art for the next book in the series

STARQUEST is the triumphant return of golden age pulp space opera into an era that has forgotten how galactic tales of treks and wars amid the stars should be told.

We appeal to all loyal readers and disappointed dreamers whose favorite franchises have been undermined or betrayed.

We need funds to cover the cost of covers! Aid the revolution in returning to our roots!

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 24: Deep of Fire

Posted June 11, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

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My Plan for a Better Polity

Posted June 9, 2025 By John C Wright

Now that the liberal and egalitarian movements of the Enlightenment are officially dead, it is time to rethink all basic assumptions about political economics. Hence, I here in all due grim sobriety reprint the several daring innovations to our constitutional order I proposed in a prior column from 2011:

I think all Christian conservative mothers should seriously think about taking a hit for the team, and agitating for the repeal of the 19th Amendment.

True, you ladies would be given up a sacred suffrage which is granted to you by God Almighty and which no man rightfully can take away. This is the downside.

On the other hand, your sisters who are feminists and suffragettes would be shut out of the voting booth as well, and they are worshipers and votaries  of Asmodeus and Moloch, who are princes of the Ninth and Eleventh Circle of Hell, commanding six thousand legions of demons.

Meanwhile, ladies, you can bend your attention to the task of raising your boy-children to vote the US Constitution back into effect, and train them in the use and care of firearms, so that we can both outbreed the servants of darkness, outvote them in the ballot box, and then shoot them when they riot.

I realize this is a radical view. But it seems like plain common sense compared to my other view, which is to abolish the American system of government altogether, and beg on our knees for the British Crown to take us back, say we’re sorry about that whole messy Revolution business.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXV

Posted June 5, 2025 By John C Wright

  • Supreme Court overrules reverse discrimination rules by 9-0 vote in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services

    The case concerns a heterosexual woman who was passed over for promotion in favor of a lesbian, and demoted in favor of a homosexual, who filed lawsuit
    under Title VII, alleging that she was denied the management promotion and demoted because of her sexual orientation. The lower court applied that standing test for discrimination against a majority group, which is a higher standard — a double standard — as the one used to test for discriminations against a minority. The Supreme Court overruled this double standard, and send the case back to the lower court, reasoning that Title VII applies equally to all citizens.

    Quoting from the opinion:

The Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule requires plaintiffs who are members of a majority group to bear an additional burden at step one. But the text of Title VII’s disparate-treatment provision draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs. The provision focuses on individuals rather than groups, barring discrimination against “any individual” because of protected characteristics. Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone.
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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 23: The Night of Lords

Posted June 4, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

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Reviewer Praise for IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY

Posted June 2, 2025 By John C Wright

Upstream Reviews posts a review of my IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY

In his epic poem PARADISE LOST, the poet prays for a fit audience, that is, one sympathetic to the aim of the poem, sensitive to its spirit, mood, nuance. I have found such a reader in Declan Finn, who manages to review my attempt at a Charles Williams style metaphysical mystery tale without giving away any of the plot twists. He is to be thanked for this courtesy.

His review is here:

He writes, in part:

F. Paul Wilson’s novel The Keep had impressed me growing up because it was a novel that had started out as Dracula and ended with Lord of the Rings.

John C Wright has managed and even greater trick with his novel Iron Chamber of Memory.

In this case, what started out as a romantic comedy, Nora Roberts style, and then, Jeffery Deaver-like, ended in an epic battle on the scale of Mary Stewart and her books of King Arthur and Merlin.

Let’s call it a fantasy romance, of sorts. Where’s the soundtrack for Excalibur! I need O Fortuna to accompany the knights charging out of the mists!

Trust me, when I say it was epic, I mean EPIC.

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Kickstarter coming for Pinkerton’s Ghost

Posted May 31, 2025 By John C Wright

A Kickstarter for Starquest book covers is coming soon, but in the meanwhile, here is another worthy cause:

 

 

Our own Ben Wheeler, David Hallquist, and Anthony Marchetta are also writers/producers of Pinkerton’s Ghosts, a horror anthology podcast on YouTube, who recently launched a Kickstarter.

If they raise the $2,000 the animatic creator Jojo Fraga has agreed to make a three minute animatic based on the climax of Season 2 of Pinkerton’s Ghosts (when our intrepid detectives venture into Hell itself).

There are rewards for supporters. If you want to support more superversive content, consider donating!

At $656.00 donated with 22 days to go, the drive might be a successful with just a little more momentum.

Link here!

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 22: Nothing

Posted May 28, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

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Epistle to Ansgar: Letter 17 (Radical Skepticism)

Posted May 27, 2025 By John C Wright

25 May 2025 AD
Feast Day of Venerable Bede

Dear Godson,

Today is the feast of the Venerable Bede, a scholar and historian and most celebrated man of letters of his day. He wrote treatises on scripture, science, history, biography, and it the first to use the dating system from the Birth of Christ, Anno Domini, A.D. He is also the first to mention King Arthur, whose historical reality many skeptics doubt.

Let us call on his spirit to aid us as we turn to another of the great doubts likely to afflict the modern Christian, which are doubts issuing from a particular philosophy, or, rather, mental disorder, to which only scholars seem prone, namely, that of refusing to admit what one knows to be the self evident.

Radical skepticism is the besetting sin of the modern day.

Radical skepticism is not doubt about this thing or that, but rather is skepticism about the faculty of the human mind itself. It is doubt about the instrument used to discriminate between reasonable and unreasonable doubt.

Skepticism is doubt about matters where there is a reasonable argument on both sides. Radical skepticism is doubt about matters no one is honestly able to doubt.

But there are things we cannot not know.

Such things are not open to reasonable doubt. They are open to unreasonable doubt, for all things are.

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Til Death Do Us Part

Posted May 23, 2025 By John C Wright

Til Death Do Us Part

Eleven stories of fantasy and science fiction of married couples in adversity and adventure, but together.
Yours truly has no story here, but I wrote the intro.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9PVYY6S

Stories by

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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXIV

Posted May 22, 2025 By John C Wright
  • U.S. House on May 22, 2025 (H.R. 1), just passed in the House. H.R.1 completely removes suppressors from the National Firearms Act requirements by including Section 2 of the Hearing Protection Act. This eliminates the $200 tax, registration, enhanced background checks, and other NFA burdens. The bill also preempts state regulations, refunds recent tax stamp payments, and includes other deregulatory measures.
    It passed by a single vote. Now on to the Senate.
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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 21: War and Logic

Posted May 21, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

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Emergency Request

Posted May 21, 2025 By John C Wright
An announcement on behalf of a reader, and a plea for help.
Our own David Marcoe writes:
My father lives in the Philippines with his wife, stepchildren, and step grandchildren. He has advanced cancer that is probably terminal. Recently, he’s been stuck in the hospital after he lost the use of his legs. My family and I have been helping with his medical costs, but I don’t have any more liquid funds immediately available. The hospital where he’s staying in the Philippines won’t discharge him until his bill is paid in full. But the longer he stays, the more the bill goes up.

Luckily, his wife has negotiated payment down to about $2,900, and then they’ll discharge him. We need your help to raise those funds. You can donate at this GonFundMe link. We also ask for your prayers. Thank you.
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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXIII

Posted May 20, 2025 By John C Wright
  • RFK Jr.’s HHS has canceled additional $60 MILLION in grants to Harvard

My comment: the administration at Harvard regards it as more important than the staggering truckloads of taxpayer cash flooding into their institution to maintain the DEI program of race-based admissions and hiring. Antiwhite prejudice is a core Woke doctrine, and they would rather perish than admit White men are human beings with souls equal in dignity to other races.

Why such madness? Because the Liberal mind is a limited mind. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Liberals are shallow.

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The Leviathan in Job

Posted May 16, 2025 By John C Wright

Part of an ongoing conversion:

I believe the main point in the Book of Job is stated explicitly: piety is not a calculation of self interest. The Accuser is given permission to vex Job with all fashion of evils, because the accusation is that Job is pious only because it benefits him.

All worldly goods (including children) are taken away. Job does not curse God and die.

His three so called friends console him by saying it is his fault when both he, and the poet, know explicitly it is not his fault. So much is clear.

The ending, however, is a mystery.

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