John C. Wright's Journal

SUMMER 2025 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.

The sale starts today, Wednesday June 18, 2025, and it runs through Tuesday June 24, 2025.

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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!

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

• Misha Burnett
• Aelth Faye 
• Z. M. Renick
• John D. Martin
• Jacob Calta
• Declan Finn
• Olyn Moon
• Justin M. Tarquin
• Blake Carpenter 

My interview with Stephen Gosney of Crimelaw. We discuss my new book, and the Christian role in art and literature.

Here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9knMN1CnL-E
And Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6saqrb-john-c.-wright-is-back-live-on-8-pm-wednesday-april-23.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

I am republishing LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT on Royal Road, hoping to drum up some publicity. The version published here under “Samples” is now password protected.

If you would like to reread it:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/109432/lost-on-the-last-continent

Spread the word.

The second volume of John C Wright’s ongoing Space Opera epic of epics is available now:

https://tinyurl.com/y2nt9fsb

SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY

Space Opera has returned in all its glory and gigantic action! If you are weary of the wasteland of wokeness, your wait is ended!

The despotic Galactic Empire is gone, and the Dark Overlords are dead.

But from the embers new menaces arise: a Dark Sun Weapon quenches living stars; Pirate King Ahab gathers space corsairs to form warfleets of conquest; the Crime Syndicate corrupts consuls, fixes vote, paralyzes the polity to pry planets from the new Constitution.

Space Princess Lyra Centauri, exiled Shrine Maiden, employs her astral powers on behalf of the mysterious spymaster Nightshadow, and finds the shades of ancient foes alive in the astral realm.

Senator Napoleon Lone, and his illegal super-robot valet, must thread the maze of stellar politics to rouse a lethargic senate ere war clouds can crush the fledgling republic!

Patrolman Athos Lone wins the Black Badge of a Vindicator, and is able investigate without warrant and execute without trial. He seeks the Murder Mansion of Pirate Captain Liska, who slew his brother. As the iron-masked and lion-clawed vigilante called the Ancient Mariner, he seeks bloody revenge.

Shall the darkness thrive and dead devilry revive?

Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!

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I humbly ask my dear readers to spread the word, boost the signal, and tell the fun-starved spaceoperaless world that relief is on the way, and the great tradition of Pulp Wonder-tales is about to be revived.