John C. Wright's Journal

The Leviathan of Time, Chapter Nine: Crown and Sword Renounced is now posted.

• Chapter Nine: Crown and Sword Renounced

In which George foreswears his crown and worldly vanity, foresees how all these matters must end, and with joyous hope begins his final ascent.

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This is the final episode of the final entry of the futurist fiction anthology ALL MEN DREAM OF EARTHWOMEN. Watch this space in the new year for a previously unpublished tale.

The Leviathan of Time, Chapter Eight: Watchman of the World Tree is now posted.

• Chapter Eight: Watchman of the World Tree

In which George speaks with one who is no son of Adam’s race, in whose keeping the secrets of time and eternity are given. He discovers something of his foe, of himself and of the tale in which he finds himself.

The Leviathan of Time Chapter Seven: Elf Fare is Unfit for Man is now posted.

• Chapter Seven: Elf Fare is Unfit for Man

In which the prince, after years of travail in the underworld, comes naked into the garden before time. Slowly, aided by the unseen, he recovers from the unnatural diet that previously sustained him.

The Museum can identify no fixed year of time nor parallel branch when these reports events could be situated. The flora as described are unknown. However, the best estimate by a non-temporal authority places the site as October 23, 4004 BC on the proleptic Julian calendar.

The Leviathan of Time Chapter Five: The Cavern of Time is now posted.

• Chapter Five: The Cavern of Time

In which Prince George speaks of his wanderings through things past and things to come. The Sorcerer Ximeng brings him to the top of a high mountain, and shows him the kingdoms of the world in the last days before the final extinction of man.

Horologists and Futurists have estimated the final day of human life to be October 22 of 4004 A.D. and the last man, Omegarus, to perish at roughly 6.00 P.M. Greenwich Mean Time somewhere in the region of Lake Avernus in Italy.

These estimates are subject to change due to as-yet unmanifested temporal redactions or revisions.

The Leviathan of Time Chapter Three: The Voice of Leviathan is now posted.

• Chapter Three: The Voice of Leviathan

In which Prince George unaccompanied enters the lair of the were-worm.

The Leviathan of Time Chapter Two: Patron Saint of Witches is now posted.

• Chapter Two: Patron Saint of Witches

In which Prince George visits a house of ill repute, which is overlooked with a wink for one of his rank, to visit his father confessor, which is not; and he wonders into what manner of tale his world has been unwillingly taken.

Note: the following is a tale first published in  ALL MEN DREAM OF EARTHWOMEN AND OTHER AEONS, and is made available here as a courtesy to my readers.

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The Leviathan of Time is now posted.

• Chapter One: At Mount Terror

In which Prince George leads two squads of King’s Own Royal Virginia Regiment against the Enemy, an ultramundane organism known as the Leviathan.

The field of battle is in eastern part of Ross Island, Antarctica, 77°31′S 168°32′E, between the twin volcanos of Mount Erebus and Mount Terror.

Despite uncommon valor in the face of insurmountable odds, the men gave a good account of themselves, but fail of their objective.

The date of the final revised version of these events, before subjective redaction, is estimated as the First Day of May of the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen, which, in the unpruned branch of history, is Year Forty of the reign of George VII, by the Grace of God, King and Emperor of Britain, Australia, India, Dutch Pennsylvania and Greater Virginia, Lord Protector of the Holy Land.

Dates, as ever, are subject to revision. Nonetheless, the brave sacrifice of these good men, despite any subsequent imposition of ontological unrealization, ought not be forgotten by the contrahistorical record.