Summer Based Book Sale
Now you can get some of your favorite John C Wright and L Jagi Lamplighter books at a lower price. It is that time of year: The BASED BOOK SALE is back.
Here is the announcement from Hans G Schantz, our very own Aether Czar.
Welcome to Summer!
It’s time to take a break from your daily routine and especially from corporate culture and get some great based books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free – but only for one week!
With about 300 based books on the shelf to browse and over a hundred new to the trove, there’s something for for every seeker of truth and tale. So unpouch your scrystone – or a “computer,” if your arcane aptitude is still in its infancy, settle into your favorite scrying chair, and begin the scroll.
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The sale starts today, Wednesday June 18, 2025, and it runs through Tuesday June 24, 2025.
What is a “based” book?
based [ beyst ] / beɪst / adjective
1. Well-grounded, resting upon a firm foundation.
2. Principled, devoted to fixed standards, especially in defiance of conventional wisdom.
3. Rejecting politically correct attitudes and celebrating nonconformity with woke opinion.
4. Committed to upholding and advancing the good, the beautiful, and the true.
antonyms: debased, cringe, woke
The Based Book Sale is a limited time offer, available only for a week, featuring more than a hundred different titles, including a couple dozen new to the sale. When every book is only $0.99 or free, you can afford to take a chance and check out a new author.
New Arrivals in Fantasy
Iron Chamber of Memory
by John C. Wright
“An eerie, suspenseful, romantic fantasy in the mood of C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams”
Hal Landfall, penniless graduate student at Magdalen College, arrives at the strange, high house of Wrongerwood, looking for his missing friend, Manfred Hathaway, the new lord of Sark Island. On the doorstep, he meets the lovely, green-eyed Laurel, a beautiful, sultry young woman from Cornwall who is Manfred’s wife-to-be.
Erected by Merlin in ancient days, Wrongerwood contains many secrets, including rooms where one can remember one’s true and forgotten self. When Hal and Laurel step inside, they begin to remember, with fear and wonder, that they have met before and that they share a forbidden secret they are forced to forget when they step outside.
The small island of Sark in the English Channel was, until recently the last feudal government in Europe. By law, no motor vehicles run on the road, and no lights burn at night. Only the lord of the island may keep hounds. An eerily magical setting for an eerily magical book.
Guardians of the Twilight Lands:
(Books of Unexpected Enlightenment 6)
by L Jagi Lamplighter (Author),
John C. Wright (Illustrator)
An old enemy returns!
With the Heer of Dunderberg dead, Rachel Griffin is determined to save her beloved Roanoke Academy before time runs out, but to do this, a new covenant must be forged with the island’s fairies. On top of this, an old enemy has escaped and might reappear any moment
Rachel has learned not to wish on stars, but what should she do when she yearns for help? She is troubled by other questions, too: Where do the dead go? What became of her beloved late grandfather? Most annoying of all, with such a wonderful boyfriend, how can she be in love with two boys?
As her fourteenth birthday approaches, the answer to these questions awaits her, along with wonders such as she has never seen.
But there are terrible things ahead, too.
All Men Dream of Earthwomen (Anthology)
All Men Dream of Earthwomen and Other Aeons
by John C. Wright
Come behold Aeons Near and Far
“I have traveled in vision from futures near at hand to those immeasurably remote and returned with tales of mystery and wonder, sorrow and hope, humanity and what comes after, and further yet, to the time beyond the end of time, and perhaps glimpsed eternity.
I convoke the witness of my dreams of things to come, and reveal them as curios and treasures. Behold future wars and children’s power armor, see the planetkiller seeking immortal vengeance against planetkillers, learn whom the choosers of the slain will choose for love, or when the dolphins will inherit the earth, or why all men dream of earthwomen.”
Enjoy these haunting tales of futures near and far by Science Fiction master John C. Wright.
One Bright Star
This is the only thing I have ever written that deserved an award. It was nominated for a Hugo, and won the votes to win, but Woke politics interfered, and voted this book, and everything else on the ballot, under ‘No Award.’ That was the end of the Hugos as a serious award in the field.
In other words, this is the story that killed the Hugos. Ironically, it is about the power of childhood imagination to guide later years.
One Bright Star to Guide Them
by John C. Wright
Tommy Robertson was once a king.
As a child, he and his three friends found their way to a magical elfin world and saved it from the Winter King.
Now a grown man successful in the world, Tommy has all but forgotten his childish adventures. He hasn’t even spoken to those friends in years.
Then a silver key and a black cat show up on his front porch, and Tommy starts to remember. Just because he grew up and left Faerie behind doesn’t mean that Faerie is finished with him.
Tommy is called to be the hero of England, and for that, he wants his friends at his side. But the real world has weighed them down and they are no longer the children he remembers. And evil things from childhood stories grow older and darker and more frightening with the passing of the years.
One Bright Star to Guide Them begins where other fairy tales end.
Can Tommy remember the courageous boy he once was, and set aside grown-up things to be a child again to save England? Or will the weight of the world prove to be too much for him and his friends?
Participating authors included:
P. Abbott, James Alderdice, Tony Andarian, J. M. Anjewierden, Robert Arrington, F. Ted Atchley, Jessica Barberi, Rick Barooah, Jean Marie Bauhaus, Zanna Bear, Edward L. Bernays, Theresa Biehle, Trever Bierschbach, D.S. Blake, Nathaniel Blevens, Mike Bogue, V. A. Boston, Daniella Bova, Leigh Brackett, Joseph Bringman, James A. Buck, Misha Burnett, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Howard Butcher, Gávez Caballero, Jacob Calta, C.J. Carella, Blake Carpenter, J.R. Cason, G. K. Chesterton, J.P. Choquette, Tyler James Cook, J.D. Cowan, Russell Cowdrey, C. M. Craig, Richard Davis, Vox Day, Jon Del Arroz, Evan DeShais, Trevor Denning, Michael DiBaggio, D. W. Dixon, Mel Dunay, Benjamin Ebert, Raymund Eich, Ezra Ferguson, Declan Finn, Michael Finney, EJ Fisch, Marina Fontaine, Joshua Forbes, Zachary Forbes, Milo James Fowler, Michael Fursdon, Karl K. Gallagher, Michael Gallagher, Michael Gallo, Dennis Garcia, Zaklog the Great, Bowen Greenwood, Roy M. Griffis, H. Rider Haggard, Eric M. Hamilton, M. Anthony Harris, Frederick Gero Heimbach, Brian Heming, Joshua Hiles, Daniel Humphreys, Susana Imaginário, Lori Janeski, C. S. Johnson, Steve Johnson, Marcus S Jones, Danielle Ste. Just, Roderick Kaine, Michael F. Kane, Michael Kayser, Joseph L. Kellogg, P. L. Kenny, L.S. King, Felix Kinnersley, Yuval Kordov, Keith Korman, Robert Kroese, Michael Lacoy, L Jagi Lamplighter,
N.R. LaPoint, Gustave Le Bon, David Lindsay, W J Long III, Abraham Lopez, Doctor Luke, Frank B. Luke, WPM, Michael P. Marpaung, T. J. Marquis, BP McCoppin, Nick McPherson, Yakov Merkin, Gregory Michael, Jack Mikkelson, Mike Mollman, J. Neira, Richard Nichols, Eric Nilles, Thomas Norford, Christopher G. Nuttall, M.S. Olney, Chad Olson, Chance Paladin, John Parce, Ryan M. Patrick, Lyndon Perry, J.Z. Pitts, Thomas Plutarch, Francis Porretto, Alex Prestia, Shell Presto, John A Pretorius, James Pyles, John Reilly, Chris Ritchey, Sam Robb, Debra Robic, James Kenneth Rogers, Nikki Root, Sharon Rose, Sean Rowland, Louie Roybal, Rafael Sabatini, Felix R. Savage, Hans G. Schantz, Xander Schreiber, Michael R. Schultheiss, Richard Sezov, Jonathan Shuerger, Percy Sinclair, David Skinner, Michael Small, R.H. Snow, Mark Sowers, Steve Stark, Eric Tanafon, Justin M. Tarquin, Elci Tate, Kevin Trainor Jr., Aaron Van Treeck, Kalkin Trivedi, Rik Ty, Sean Valdrow, David Vandervort, S.C. Vincent, Henry Vogel, Erik Waag, C P Webster, David J. West, D.L. White, Fenton Wood, and John C. Wright.
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.
