An Announcement from my Publisher
The words below are those of my Publisher, Vox Day, of Castalia House:
As mentioned when we announced the book, a substantial portion of the first month’s sales revenues will be donated to Stillbrave, the children’s cancer charity. According to my calculations, after the first two weeks $658.84 has been raised for Stillbrave to date. There are still more than two weeks to go, so if you have any interest at all in Mr. Wright’s superlative excursion into the philosophy and morality of time travel, I would encourage you to buy it now, either from the Castalia House store (EPUB format) or from Amazon (Kindle format).
If you have not read the reviews, of which there are 12 averaging a 4.8 rating, perhaps a selection of quotes from a two or three of them will encourage you to give the book a shot.
Review 1:
I urgently and without hesitation, recommend City Beyond Time. Atlantis, Hi-Brazil, Tartessos. Or if you don’t read the classics; Krypton, Gallifrey and Valyria.
The forever doomed, forever lost and forever beautiful true city and true home. The seat of all grace, all wisdom and all power, destined from it’s creation for destruction by it’s own hubris.
Welcome to Metachonoplis.
Writers don’t dream this big anymore. They don’t dare, they would be laughed out of the business. Much easier to take the path most commonly taken. Much easier to drop the F-bomb eighteen times before the end of page six and call it art. Just describe every vulgar experience you’ve ever had and call it refined. Just pretend your words can become a muse for the readers mind and call it good…enough.
John C. Wright is clearly and obviously a rather drastic anachronism. If H. Rider Haggard, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler and Roger Zelazny had got together in a bar and decided just for kicks to have a genetic recombinant uterine replication vanity project together the result would be John C. Wright.
Review 2:
I’ve noted a theme in my so far sadly limited (but soon to be comprehensive!) readings of John C. Wright that he speaks in a voice sui generis among modern literary pretenders — that is, all those who are not in fact John C. Wright — portraying what for lack of better nomenclature we could term “inspirational dystopias”, shining the light of human fulfillment from amidst what in lesser hands would be overwhelming nihilism and/or despair.
This collection of stories raises that artistry to masterly finesse; it reads like Moorcock’s Dancers At The End of Time as plotted by a collaboration of Neal Stephenson and C.S. Lewis, with a subtle sprinkling of the absurdist wit Messr. Wright displays abundantly in his online presence.
Unconditionally recommended!
Review 3:
John Wright does it again. This is the second book of collected stories I’ve read from him, the other being Awake in the Night Lands, and cannot recommend him highly enough.
I’ve read, and watched, my fair share of time travel stories and Wright leaves them all in the dust, even Mull’s Grip of the Shadow Plague subplot which I had just read to my kids. His vision is far more expansive, far more human and far more frightening than what I’ve encountered elsewhere. Not only does he pursue the logical and moral ramifications of what unfettered time travel would entail and what that would do to those that master it, he also presents two sides, a heaven and a hell, the costs of each, and lets the reader decide which one he would seek.
For what, one wonders, can you possibly be waiting? Especially if you consider yourself even a casual reader of science fiction.
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My comment: all of the reviews on Amazon are very flattering, but I notice they are all readers just of my Castalia House offerings.
I have written or appeared in other books. They are listed below.
Publications
Click on the title or image of the publication to learn more about the book, and reviews and interviews related to it.
THE ESCHATON SEQUENCE | Van Vogt’s | CHRONICLES OF CHAOS | |||
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| Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765329271 Published December 2011 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 076532928x to be Published December 2012 as a hardback by Tor books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765316293 Published May 2008 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765311313 Published November 2005 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765314967 Published November 2006 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 076531648X Published April 2007 as a hardback by Tor books. |
| THE WAR OF THE DREAMING | THE GOLDEN AGE TRILOGY | ||||
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The Golden Age Trilogy | |||||
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| Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0312848714 Published August 2004 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765313332 Published March 2005 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0312848706 Published April 2002 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765304325 Published May 2003 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765307561 Published November 2003 as a hardback by Tor books. | NO LONGER AVAILABLEISBN # 0739439650Published February 2004 from the Science Fiction Book Club |
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| Songs of the Dying Earth (Contributor) | Engineering Infinity (Contributor) | Year’s Best SF 27 (Contributor) | New Space Opera 2 (Contributor) | Clockwork Phoenix 3 (Contributor) | Clockwork Phoenix (Contributor) | Federations (Contributor) |
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| Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 1596062134 Published December 2008 as a hardback by Subterranean Press | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 1907519521 Published December 2010 as a paperback by Solaris Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0312608985 Published July 2010 as a hardback by St. Martin’s Griffin | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0061562351 Published June 2009 as a hardback by Eos Books (Harper-Collins) | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com!ISBN # 1607620626 Published July 2010 as a hardback by Norilana Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com!ISBN # 1596062134 Published December 2008 as a hardback by Norilana Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0809573474 Published April 2009 as a paperback by Prime Books |
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| The Night Lands | Year’s Best SF (Contributor) | Best Short Novels (Contributor) | Space Opera Renaissance (Contributor) | Year’s Best SF 3 (Contributor) | Breach The Hull (Contributor) | So It Begins (Contributor) | No Longer Dreams (Contributor) | |
| Eternal Love (Contributor) | Nightmares of the FalI (Contributor) | |||||||
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| Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 1592246788 Published October 2003 as a hardback by Wildside Press | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0955478308 Published May 2007 as a hardback by Three Legged Fo | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0312324790 Published July 2004 as a hardback by St. Martin’s Griffin | Available through the Science Fiction Book Club ISBN # 1582880867 Published November 2004 as a hardback by Science Fiction Book Club | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0765306174 Published July 1998 as a hardback by Tor books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0061059013. Published June 1998 as a paperback by HarperPrism Books. | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 1892669439 Published November 2007 as a hardback by Marietta Publishing | Click here to order it now from the Publisher! ISBN # 9780979690150 To be published May 2009 as a paperback by Dark Quest Games | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 096416227X Published June 2005 as a paperback by Lite Circle Books |
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| Star Wars on Trial (Contributor) | King Kong Is Back (Contributor) | Finding Serenity (Contributor) | Batman Unauthorized (Contributor) | Mere Christians (Contributor) | Atheist to Catholic (Contributor) |
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| Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN# 193210089X Published June 2006 as a paperback from Benbella Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN# 1932100644 Published November 2005 as a paperback from Benbella Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN# 1932100431 Published April 2005 as a paperback from Benbella Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN# 1933771305 Published March 2008 as a paperback from Benbella Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 9780801071843 Published February 2009 as a paperback by Baker Books | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ISBN # 0867169575 Published March 2011 as a paperback by Servant Books |
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||
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| Thrill Seeekers (Based on a Story) | John C. Wright Shirts | Peter Power Armor Gear |
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| aka The Time Shifters Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! ASIN: B000051S4P Released 1999Directed by Mario Azzopardi Written by Kurt Inderbitzin & Gay WalchBased on a Story Treatment by John C. Wright | Click here to order it now from Amazon.com! “Mysterious Shirt with my name on it.” Who produced it? Why?And there is more than one. | Click here to order them now from CafePress.com! Promotional Material for the Breach the Hull anthology published by Marietta Publishing |
Please see the Short Stories page for more information on short fiction publication and availability.
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Free Samples and Stories
Fiction Available on the Web
- LAST OF ALL SUNS
- AWAKE IN THE NIGHT
- CRY OF THE NIGHT-HOUND (in excerpt only)
- SILENCE OF THE NIGHT
- ON THE PEOPLE’S BUSINESS
- A RANDOM WORLD OF DELTA CAPRICORNI Aa, ALSO CALLED SCHEDDI
Non-Fiction Available on the Web
- AND NO FEMALE, EVER
- FAITH AND SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION (Published as ALIENS NEED CHRIST’S REDEMPTION, TOO)
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
