Thanks for the tip. I haven’t read any John C. Wright, but I’ve just ordered his Chaos trilogy from Amazon, in used paperbacks. Looks promising.
John C. Wright is really, really good. It should say who wrote the article because conservative people who dig sci-fi should know his name if they don’t.
Once a classically educated libertarian, now a conservative Catholic whose ‘golden age’ series is the best thing to come out since Dan Simmon’s Hyperion, at least that I have read. If there’s any justice he will be looked back at as being up there with Gene Wolfe, another conservative Catholic sci-fi writer, one who is actually pretty well regarded even among the lib elite, as he should be.
I haven’t read the Chaos series, but have read ‘count to a trillion’ and the golden age series. I thought it was tremendous, really a love letter to classic sci-fi series of the 60s using an argument about the dangers and benefits of where technology might be taking us, from a pretty conservative and Christian point of view. Anyone who digs really good sci-fi from say the late 50s-60s would dig it, but many let his politics turn them off, which doesn’t say too much for them as sci-fi fans, in my opinion.
The libs can’t stand this guy, his blog is full of everything between dissertations on natural law to classic sci-fi to modern politics. Usually with a heavy Catholic view, at least since his conversion, which he claims is miraculous and happened when he had a heart attack.
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