John C. Wright’s Iron Chamber of Memory

John C. Wright’s Iron Chamber of Memory

The mystery of an island where the past never ended. Riddles in an ancient house whose doors remain locked; not to keep thieves out, but to keep ghosts in. A quest for the Holy Grail, and a love triangle worthy of Arthurian legend. Murder plots, skin changers, cases of mistaken…
May 25, 2016
Goodreads Censors Crimethink

Goodreads Censors Crimethink

As the backlash over Twitter's deverification of British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos reverberates through the internet, a parallel controversy involving censorship and libel against other counterculture figures continues to simmer on Goodreads. Before we dive in, it's worth noting a few key points of Goodreads' review policy. Mentioning the author in the context…
January 15, 2016
One-man Lynch Mob

One-man Lynch Mob

Most organisms have a well-developed flight response that drives individuals away from danger; thus aiding their survival. As presumably higher lifeforms, the CHORFs in trad publishing should have responded to mounting evidence that the system they're beholden to is crumbling, their shrinking cliques are havens for child molesters, and that…
January 3, 201610 Comments

Transhuman and Subhuman Part XIV: Childhood’s End and Gnosticism

Continuing from the previous post, we now consider the Gnostic foundations of Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke as demonstrated by John C. Wright. "I say CHILDHOOD’ S END is ‘Gnostic’, a heresy of the Christians," Wright explains, "because I do not see the attitude or mind-set of any other religion…
July 15, 2015
The Advent of Somewhither

The Advent of Somewhither

John C. Wright's latest novel is here! What is the whimsically titled Somewhither about? The long answer is that SOMEWHITHER will be in the same category as THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE but if, instead of being a good fairy tale and well written children’s book, the author was an…
July 6, 2015

Transhuman and Subhuman Part XII: The Big Three of Science Fiction

The twelfth essay in Transhuman and Subhuman by John C. Wright corrects the popular misconception that the third member of the Big Three Campbellian authors, alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, wasn't Arthur C. Clarke or Ray Bradbury, but A.E. van Vogt. Wright points out that neither Clarke nor Bradbury were…
July 2, 2015
Transhuman and Subhuman Part X:The Golden Compass Points in No Direction

Transhuman and Subhuman Part X:The Golden Compass Points in No Direction

John C. Wright's criticism of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy hinges not on the books' atheist message (Wright was an atheist himself when he first read, and found serious defects in, the series), but on the sloppy and arbitrary handling of their plot. "This book should have been an atheist…
June 16, 2015