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	A former attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, ~~and~~ a ~~Bigot~~		A former attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor. Considered to be one of the most important new voices in science fiction.

	==Novels==		==Novels==

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For other people named John Wright, see John Wright (disambiguation).

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).

A former attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor. Considered to be one of the most important new voices in science fiction.

"Awake in the Night," (novella) William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands: Eternal Love, edited by Andy W. Robertson, Wildside Press (December 2003).
"The Cry of the Night Hound," (novella) William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands: Nightmares of the Fall, also edited by Robertson (August 2007).
"Silence of the Night", as of 2008 only published here at Robertson's thenightland.co.uk website.
"The Last of All Suns," (novella) William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands: Nightmares of the Fall.

"Farthest Man from Earth," (novella) Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 19 # 4 & 5, No.229-230, April 1995.
"Guest Law," (novella) Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 21 # 6, No.258, June 1997.
- Reprinted in Year's Best SF 3, ed. David G. Hartwell, HarperPrism, 1998, and in The Space Opera Renaissance.
"Not Born a Man," (short story) Aberrations, #24, October 1994.
- Reprinted in No Longer Dreams, ed. Danielle McPhail, Lite Circle, 2005.
"Forgotten Causes," (short story) Absolute Magnitude, #16, Summer 2001.
- Reprinted in Breach the Hull, ed. Mike McPhail, Marietta, 2007.
"Father's Monument," (short story) No Longer Dreams, ed. Danielle McPhail, Lite Circle, 2005.
"The Kindred," (short story) No Longer Dreams, ed. Danielle McPhail, Lite Circle, 2005.
"Peter Power Armor," (short story) Breach the Hull, ed. Mike McPhail, Marietta, 2007.
"One Bright Star to Guide Them," (short story) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 116, #4 & 5, Whole No. 682, April/May 2009.

Interview conducted by Nick Gevers of Locus Online
Review at SFSignal, features a detailed account of Wright's conversion story in the comments below.
John C. Wright- Libertarian -- Advocates for Self-Government
Interview on the SciFiDimensions Podcast

Fantastic and Speculative Fiction by John C. Wright, a web site devoted to John C. Wright's publications
John C. Wright's Journal his blog.
Why I am not a Deist discusses his conversion to Christianity