Re: Does John C. Wright (The Golden Age) have a website or Forum??

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Hi,
Im a big fan of these three books and would love to get into a
discussion with others who have read them. Does he have a website or
is there a forum for these books?


You can discuss them here, if you like. He certainly is the
focus of attention here abouts.

(following up to an article before the Hoganisation of the thread!)

I would like to hear from those who have read some of his _other_
work. E.g. are the Everness books worth reading?

I've read "Guest Law" in Hartwell's _Years Best SF 3_ and found it
competent enough. The novella (I guess it would be) "Awake in the
Night" at http://www.thenightland.co.uk/nightawake.html is very
nicely done (it's the best thing on the site), if you like stories
set in Hodgson's universe.

"Awake in the Night" is the work I like most by him. Note
that I have never read Hodgson.

"Guest Law" I know I read recently but I cannot recall
it at all. I am pretty sure I did not dislike it.

I liked the set-up in the Everness series and loathed the
payoff, even taking into account his Randian taint.

I suspect the ORPHANS OF CHAOS will be compared to Harry Potter
because it's a boarding school that is in England or some other mythical
land but while there are one or two points of similarity, it is not
headed in the same direction. For one thing, Rowling hasn't had Hermione
trussed up in kinky bondage gear and leered over by the local perve
to "sap her powers".

(the original posting apparently never made it here)

Being less filled with a black hate against Ayn Rand and her disciples
than is James Nicoll,

Please, I don't hate them. Why, were it in my power to let
them live in a Randian utopia, unburdened by second hands, I would
give them that gift.

In any case, I know I have said nice things about some
of his fiction.

I thought THE GOLDEN AGE series quite good (I
found the lapse concerning computability to be forgiveable), and I

See, I completely missed that. I did spot that at one
crucial point, he appeared to overlook HDE226868, the blue super-
giant that with its partner, a black hole, made up Cygnus X-1.
He seems to have simply underestimated how bright it would be
(or rather, hoped that it wouldn't be too bright and then
didn't check).

I did suggest some fixes to him here on rasfw: HDE226868
went super nova or for some reason "Cygnus X-1" is not the same
Cygnus X-1 we know.

also liked EVERNESS quite a bit. Wright thinks big when doing SF and
is pretty deft with his mythologies and symbols when writing fantasy.

ORPHANS OF CHAOS, however, had a strange vibe to it, including some
eyebrow-raising S&M-style spanking and a curiously submissive
heroine. Wright has never written a convincing female character, as
far as I can recall, and making one the narrator, while bold, didn't
really help. Or maybe this was a "conservative" fantasy, in the least
inspiring sense of the word.

Anyway, I had a difficult time getting to the end of it. This is not a
very promising sign for the following volumes, since the first volume
of each series has so far been the best. (As I understand it, ORPHANS
OF CHAOS was also the first novel written after his near-death
experience and, um, conversion.)

Near death experience?

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