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John C. Wright


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A.E. Van Vogt, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, Cordwainer Smith, Roger Ze ...more


John C. Wright (John Charles Justin Wright, born 1961) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. A Nebula award finalist (for the fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos), he was called "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" by Publishers Weekly (after publication of his debut novel, The Golden Age). ...more

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Dr Strange!

Marvel’s DR STRANGE was not only the first comic I ever read as a teen, but it has remained my favorite from that day to this. So it is with some hope and excitement that I see he has finally been given the big production film treatment with an A-list actor.


Aside from an obscure television pilot, which I also recall fondly albeit it was not without its flaws (they turned the Ancient One into a Whi

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Average rating: 3.94 · 29,986 ratings · 2,652 reviews · 136 distinct works • Similar authors
The Golden Age (Golden Age,...
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The Golden Age The Phoenix Exultant The Golden Transcendence
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Orphans of Chaos Fugitives of Chaos Titans of Chaos
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Count to a Trillion The Hermetic Millennia The Judge of Ages The Architect of Aeons The Vindication of Man Count to Infinity
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“If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.”
― John C Wright
tags: atheism
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“Truth does not become more or less true, whether those who know it are many or few.”
― John C. Wright, The Golden Age
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“Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner’s duty to escape.”
― John C. Wright, The Golden Transcendence
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Polls

DECEMBER FANTASY: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for December 2011 Fantasy Book of the Month.

 
  18 votes, 22.0%

 
  18 votes, 22.0%

Northern Lights (aka The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman
 
  16 votes, 19.5%

 
  13 votes, 15.9%

 
  6 votes, 7.3%

 
  4 votes, 4.9%

 
  4 votes, 4.9%

 
  3 votes, 3.7%

82 total votes
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