Why China Hates Star Wars

Why China Hates Star Wars

The numbers are in, and Disney's Solo: A Star Wars Story has spectacularly let down Kathleen Kennedy and her media cheerleaders, particularly blue checkmark Twitter. The Disney shills' excuse-making has been markedly anemic this time around. Everybody knew after The Last Jedi fell off a cliff that audiences were fed up with…
May 31, 201810 Comments
Starquest

Starquest

Science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright announces an exciting and timely new project. 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…
May 30, 20189 Comments
Wright. Warpig. Finn

Wright. Warpig. Finn

Science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright, alpha geek Daddy Warpig, and multiple Dragon Award nominee Declan Finn join Max Dean Esmay for a special installment of Red Pill Religion. Topics include SJW censorship of science fiction, Larry Correia's disinvitation from Origins, and more. Give it a listen! P.S. The award-winning…
May 29, 20182 Comments
A Day Long Remembered

A Day Long Remembered

The opening weekend figures for Soylo are in. Before we get started, let's take a quick trip down memory lane. "I've been predicting that the upcoming Han Solo debacle movie will begin the Star Wars franchise's collapse." -Brian Niemeier, 11/7/17 "First, Star Wars fans are not perfectly content. In fact,…
May 28, 201822 Comments
Catholic Wonkery

Catholic Wonkery

...Culture War Edition. Wherein Catholic Wonk Dr. Taylor Marshall attempts to advise Catholics how to win the culture war by writing exactly the kind of article that's been losing Catholics the culture war. First up, there's no clearer mark of a commenter who has his finger on the pulse of…
May 25, 201841 Comments

Fighting the Void

Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed on a live stream series aptly titled Fighting the Void. Topics covered include as close to a succinct recap of Sad and Rabid Puppies as I could deliver on short notice, a brief discussion of #ConGate, and a digression into Nick…
May 24, 2018
XSeed Preview

XSeed Preview

You guys are awesome, so here's a little treat: a sneak preview of my upcoming mecha/Mil-SF novel Combat Frame XSeed. Prologue The future is over. Cascading social and economic crises led to the Collapse of civilization on earth. Wealthy oligarchs partnered with the last governments to found a new order…
May 23, 201820 Comments
Soylo

Soylo

I've written at length about how Disney's Star Wars movies are nothing but hate mail to the franchise's core audience. After the precipitous second week box office drop suffered by The Last Jedi, I concluded that Solo would be the first Star Wars movie to fail outright. Professional comic book…
May 22, 20185 Comments
Three Big Questions

Three Big Questions

Author, editor, and publisher Jeff Duntemann poses the three questions that authors of speculative fiction must ask when designing magic systems. There are three Big Questions you need to ask yourself as you take on a task of designing a magical system: What is the source of magical power? Where…
May 21, 20185 Comments
SC Spring Sale

SC Spring Sale

Announcing the Soul Cycle Spring Sale! For a limited time, the Kindle versions of my first three highly acclaimed novels are on sale for only $0.99 each! First up is the breakout adventure-horror novel that earned me a Campbell nomination: Nethereal, Soul Cycle Book I. Brian did a good job…
May 18, 20186 Comments