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John C Wright

Born	1961
Nationality	American
Alma mater	College of William and Mary (J.D.)
Occupation	author

John C. Wright (John Charles Justin Wright, born 1961) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels, and a Nebula Award finalist for his fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos. Publishers Weekly said he "may be this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" when reviewing his debut novel, The Golden Age.

Biography

A former attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, he graduated from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary in 1987. As an undergraduate, he studied the Great Books program at St. John's College of Maryland in 1984. He was admitted to the practice of law in three jurisdictions (New York, May 1989; Maryland, December 1990; Washington, DC, January 1994). His law practice was unsuccessful and drove him into bankruptcy soon thereafter. He then worked for the newspaper St. Mary's Today. He currently works as a technical writer in Virginia, where he lives with his wife, fellow author L. Jagi Lamplighter (St. John's College of Maryland, class of 1985), and their children. At the age of 42, Wright converted from atheism to Christianity citing a Near death experience with visions of the "Virgin Mary, her son, and His Father-not to mention various other spirits and ghosts over a period of several days" and claiming that prayers he made were answered. Wright acknowledged that before his conversion "even if appeared before me in the flesh, I would call it an hallucination." Skeptics are unlikely to be convinced that his experiences are real. In 2008, he converted to the Roman Catholic Church, of which he approvingly stated: "If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics." For several years Wright has made regular posts to his website on many topics, especially science fiction.

Controversy

On July 29, 2009, Wright posted an entry in his blog entitled More Diversity and More Perversity in the Future! where he criticized SyFy's promises of more diversity in programming, calling homosexuality an "abomination", "an irrational lust", "a malfunction of love", "perverted" and not "normal and natural", drawing comparison to racism and suggesting its depiction to be similar to that of "love affairs with corpses, small children, and farm animals". This caused controversy within the science fiction community, drawing heavy criticism from fellow sci-fi writers such as Hal Duncan. Wright later deleted the original post, complaining of "slander" at having his views about lesbian and gay people referred to as homophobic and bigoted, and sought to clarify that he shared the views of his church that homosexuality was against nature. He concluded, however, by saying "The love a homosexual feels toward his lover may be disordered – but it is still love, and love is still divine"

Novels

The Golden Age

War of the Dreaming

Last Guardian of Everness (2004)
Mists of Everness (2005)

Chronicles of Chaos

Count to the Eschaton Sequence

Count to a Trillion (2011)
The Hermetic Millennia (2012)
Judge of Ages (forthcoming)
Untitled Fourth Volume (forthcoming)
Count to Infinity (forthcoming)

Other Novels

Null-A Continuum (sequel to A. E. van Vogt's The World of Null-A, 2008)

Stories in the Night Land setting

"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 on Robertson's nightland.co.uk website. (May 2007 ).
"The Last of All Suns," (novella) William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands: Nightmares of the Fall. (November 2003 ).

Other publications

"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, No. 24, October 1994.
- Reprinted in No Longer Dreams, ed. Danielle McPhail, Lite Circle, 2005.
"Forgotten Causes," (short story) Absolute Magnitude, No. 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.
"Choosers of the Slain," (short story) Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2008.
"One Bright Star to Guide Them," (short story) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 116, No. 4 & 5, Whole No. 682, April/May 2009.