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Make Outer Space Great Again!

Posted May 25, 2018 By John C Wright

It is TIME for a CHANGE!

I am pleased and proud to announce the onset of a long-awaited campaign to quit my dayjob, take up my pen, light it on fire, and ignite the slumbering spirit of fandom.

As of this day, the campaign to Make Outer Space Great Again begins, and you can be part of it.

I calculate I produce a novel every sixty days, starting with the pulp material I have previously published in serial format on this site, and then later branching out to other works.

I am particularly eager to finish the first volume of STARQUEST which is my answer to the disappointed and ruination a certain Mouse has visited on a long loved favorite franchise we all know and love.

On Freestartr, a website blessedly free from Big Brother and devoted to absolute freedom of speech, we begin the first of two funding drives.

https://freestartr.com/?post_type=project&p=225819

This first seeks monthly contributions to pay the monthly mortgage and buy a cup of coffee, so I can have a roof overhead and a cup of joe in hand while typing like a mad mantis to delight the souls and enrich the lives of my beloved readers.

The second will concentrate on getting the basics together for STARQUEST, cover art and such, and it will be a one time deal.

Here is the pitch:

The Pulp Revolt starts here! You have nothing to lose but your yawns!

Goal: to fund SF Grandmaster John C Wright penning 6 books year, and make space great again!

First is LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT, a tale of the dusk of time!

Description: A quarter billion years hence, man is hunted to extinction by the mutants and posthumans unwise meddling with nature has brought forth.

UFO abductions are real! Chasing a flying saucer through the storms above the Bermuda Triangle, aviator, adventurer and big game hunter Col. Preston Lost falls though a hole in spacetime, and emerges above a volcano-lit hellscape swarming with dinosaurs. Beneath a giant moon, all continents are merged into one: Pangaea Ultima.

The hunter becomes the hunted! Giants and terrors pursue Preston Lost across jungle, lava, and precipice, seeking from him the secret of the Time Tesserect, which he is destined to destroy. But first he must rescue Cynisca, the last princess of Atlantis, torn, as he was, from her own time, to be enslaved amid the savage ruins of a posthistoric future!

Men and beasts from all eras, ages, and eons have been gathered at the end of time to serve the sinister purposes of the Watchers, the eighth and penultimate race of man. Artificial evolution has reached a wretched dead end. Does Preston Lost, a man from the dawn of man, hold hope for a tomorrow beyond tomorrow?

The first novel in the ongoing series is RUNAGATE OF PANGAEA. The second is TERRORS OF PANGAEA.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet XLII

Posted May 24, 2018 By John C Wright

I am not a sports guy. I care nothing for sports, and I simply do not have the gene that can make me care about them. But, like a colorblind man who respects the ability of his fellowmen to admire rainbows and sunsets, I admire the qualities of team spirit, fan loyalty, sportsmanship and fairplay which athletic sports in a healthy society encourage and create. (In an unhealthy society, winning becomes an idol, and sportsmanship is discouraged in favor of winning for its own sake, boasting, egotism and insolence. See Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali for details.)

It is not my world. Nonetheless, it is with elation that I can report another win for Donald. J. Trump:

The NFL will enact a national anthem policy for 2018 that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Wednesday.

1. All team and league personnel on the field shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.

2.The Game Operations Manual will be revised to remove the requirement that all players be on the field for the anthem.

3. Personnel who choose not to stand for the anthem may stay in the locker room or in a similar location off the field until after the anthem has been performed.

4. A club will be fined by the League if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.

5. Each club may develop its own work rules, consistent with the above principles, regarding its personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.

6. The commissioner will impose appropriate discipline on league personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.

Short version: if you hate the flag of your country that make you a rich-as-Croesus spoiled brat sports star, you can keep your ugly mug in the locker room, but you cannot show your hatred in public without a fine.

Chalk this win to Trump. Can you imagine, under Hillary, that this issue would have even seen the light of day?

Now, keep in mind the Left hate the NFL for the same reason they hate the Boy Scouts, and they hate unborn babies. It is the same reason Gollum hates sunlight.

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 51, Slaying in the Slave Pen

Posted May 23, 2018 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 51, Slaying in the Slave Pen, is now posted on Patreon.

Episode 51 Slaying in the Slave Pen

In this exciting episode, amid chaos and uproar, Colonel Lost must face the Mighty One seeking him. Bloodshed erupts.

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Red Pill Religion

Posted May 23, 2018 By John C Wright

Tonight on Red Pill Religion we discuss yet more reasons why atheism is morally corrupt, mentally incoherent, socially uncivil, and artistically bankrupt.

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Pulp Magazine Archives

Posted May 23, 2018 By John C Wright

Let me bring this link to your attention. It is the Pulp Magazine archives:

https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?&sort=-downloads&page=2

I must say, however, that this particular page opens up to magazines from the 1970’s that I have on my bookshelf even now. I may be old, but I am not that old. Most Sci-Fi historians (if such an absurdity can be imagined) would, I assume, place the end of the glory days of pulp somewhere around the beginning of the Golden Age of Hard SF, early in 1940, when John W Campbell Jr took over Astounding, and brought aboard Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and A.E. van Vogt. By 1970, the pulps properly so called had been gone from the newsstands for thirty years.

However, if you scroll down, I can personally recommend WORLDS OF IF from February 1972, particularly ‘Patterns of Chaos’ by Colin Kapp.

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The Lament for Prometheus

Posted May 22, 2018 By John C Wright

Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, first published in 1920, is a book that has always fascinated me. It is a story of a magnificent failure.

I am not the only one fascinated by this blasphemous book. C.S. Lewis, and Colin Wilson were likewise, as you can tell from their own works, as was Michael Moorcock. Harold Bloom, the famous critic,  in his sole attempt at fiction writing penned a sequel or re-imagining called Flight to Lucifer (which he since denounced).

Colin Wilson declares it to be the “greatest novel of the twentieth century”, and C.S. Lewis says it is the book that inspired him to write science fiction:

“From Lindsay I first learned what other planets in fiction are really good for: for spiritual adventures. Only they can satisfy the craving which sends our imaginations off the earth.”

It is the tale of a Englishman named Maskull, an everyman figure, transported via the occult means of backward light-rays to the giant planet Tormance circling the double star Arcturus, seeking a godlike but hidden figure named Surtur, who may be the devil, or the divine fire hidden in every man.

Even to this day, I hold it up as the most imaginative work in science fiction or fantasy, describing things that are literally unimaginable, such as a third positive sex for mankind, aside from male and female, or two new primary colors of a second spectrum.

As a child, I was delighted in the sheer weirdness of the conceit; as a youth I wondered about the symbolism and philosophy; as an adult, for better or worse, I see clearly the impious and morbid message hidden at the heart of this Gnostic allegory.

I have written a whole novel-length book on the subject of Lindsay’s Voyage to Arcturus, it magnificence, and its failure, which explores the themes and symbolism of this forgotten masterpiece. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Prayer for the Workingman

Posted May 21, 2018 By John C Wright

As I am looking for a new job, I say the following prayer to Saint Joseph:

Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being able to work side by side with Jesus in the carpenter shop of Nazareth. As a token of your own gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace to respect the dignity of labor and ever to be content with the position in life, however lowly, in which it may please Divine Providence to place me. Teach me to work for God and with God in the spirit of humility and prayer, as you did, so that I may offer my toil in union with the sacrifice of Jesus in the Mass as a reparation for my sins, and gain rich merit for heaven.

The wife and I are seriously debating whether I should just throw off my dayjob, and work as a writer fulltime. I vow I could write a book every month, or every other month, and finish off the projects my dear fans are waiting to see, Moth and Cobweb, or Somewhither, or my new Star Wars inspired “Wright Way to Write it” project called Starquest.

The wife and I are puzzling out how to do a freestarter or kickstarter campaign to pay for things like cover art. You may have seen her notice in this space previously.

In any case, prayers would be helpful to me should any fans who are Christian be willing to remember me to heaven. My pagan fans, I am not sure if you call up spirits from the vasty deep, whether they will be on my side or not, so use caution.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet XLI

Posted May 18, 2018 By John C Wright

The Hill this morning reported:

The Trump administration announced on Friday it plans to ban the use of federal funds for family planning clinics that refer women for abortions.

The rule would ban clinics that receive federal money from referring women for abortions and remove the requirement that clinics counsel women on abortion as an option.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. This is a small first step. We should pray to see abortion outlawed in our lifetimes.

When William Wilberforce started his crusade against the slave trade, he certainly did not expect to see slavery itself, not just the international trade, ended in England, then worldwide, before he died: but so the Divine Judge in Heaven, who sees all hidden hearts, decree.

When a young mother butchers her own helpless child in the womb like livestock, it mars and scars her soul. Having her return to regular Church-going, having a happy marriage, having normal human social relations, all become more difficult. The little ghost sits in high windows at night, or atop her bookshelf in her room, and looks down at her. She feels an ache in her arm where she is not carrying her baby.

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Three Questions about Catholics

Posted May 18, 2018 By John C Wright

A reader wrote an asked me three questions, given below in italics, and gave me permission to share the questions and my answer to anyone who may be curious.

My own experience, when I was looking into which denomination to join, was that everything I heard about the Catholic teaching that seemed bad, or even fishy, turned out, upon closer examination, not to be something the Catholics actually taught.

My biggest personal barrier to becoming a Catholic was giving up on contraceptives, which is one thing I had already, back when I was an atheist, had deduced for entirely secular reasons to be a grave moral error.

This, frankly, made the matter much easier for me than for most new converts, since I could not, in good conscience, contemplate joining any denomination that did not stay faithful to the ancient Christian teaching on this point, because I myself had quite independently discovered that the ancient Christian teaching was correct. The idea that God would change His mind on this point was one I did not bother to entertain.

  1. I’m uncomfortable with praying to humans, like Mary or the saints. I have to admit I don’t have a real argument, but it just makes me uncomfortable. Is this biblical or at least not forbidden biblically? 

To answer this, we must first ask why pray at all?

God certainly knows your prayer before you ask it. He knows what you need from ages before you were born.

The answer is not controversial. Not just Catholics but most mainstream denominations teach that we participate in the divine nature and the divine will when we pray.

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Crowdsourcing Starquest

Posted May 17, 2018 By John C Wright

Jagi, here.

John and I are toying with the idea of trying a crowdsourcing campaign (like Kickstarter, but not sure which one we’d use yet) to see if we could fund some time for him to finish Starquest, rather than have to immediately find a new day job.

Not a sure thing yet, but if we did: Any kind of prize or stretch goal you guys might like to see?

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Larry Correia on Origins

Posted May 17, 2018 By John C Wright

I confess to an unchristian and uncharitable desire to see Gamergate or Sad Puppies revived, and to have all the wretched Secret Masters of SJW, or whoever is behind this, exposed, shamed, and run out of town on a rail.

Larry Correia has posted an additional comment on the matter. It is R-rated language, which, in this case, is utterly justified:

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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 50, Voice of Thunder

Posted May 16, 2018 By John C Wright

Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 50, Voice of Thunder, is now posted on Patreon.

Episode 50 Voice of Thunder

In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost receives unexpected help, and hears an  sound unexpected but dearly familiar.

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Red Pill Religion

Posted May 16, 2018 By John C Wright

Tonight we may have something entirely different.

 

 

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Sheep, Wolf, Sheepdog

Posted May 16, 2018 By John C Wright

As ever, C.S. Lewis puts an idea into words better than I could hope. It is an idea we desperately need in this hour when vulgarity, misogyny, boasting, brutality, bullying, and the lowest and most craven forms of shrieking and hysterical girlish cowardice are all combined in our elites and role models.

In the current day, the concept that the most important element of character is imposed by art, not by nature, has been dismissed and derided.

That element is chivalry.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet XL

Posted May 16, 2018 By John C Wright

The unconstitutional and absurd investigation by Mueller into alleged collusion between Trump and Russian oligarchs to hoax the 2016 election has encountered an ironic punchline:

Mueller, because of his own collusion with Russian oligarchs, has a conflict of interest in pursuing the investigation, lest his own unlawful conduct come to light. An honorable man, at this point, would recuse himself.

In other words, Mueller’s fishing trips trying to take down a duly elected president based on trumped up charges, is apparently himself guilty of the crime he is investigating, and Trump is not.

Let us hope we have heard the last of this nonsense.

A column in the Hill by John Solomon, from which I have quoted relevant paragraphs:

… There’s one episode even Mueller’s former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists — acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.

Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.

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