Books by John C. Wright and Complete Book Reviews
John C. Wright, Author . Tor $25.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0756-9
A movie based on Wright's modernized space opera could easily appeal to fans of The Matrix
: both contain a charming bulletproof last-best-hope-of-mankind protagonist, sociological philosophy debated by hyperintelligent computers and fanatically
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John C. Wright, Author . Tor $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1333-1
With oughta-be-in-pictures imagery and dialogue designed for laugh tracks, Wright relentlessly riffs off every fantasy and action-movie cliché in this boisterous agglutination of modernized myths, the sequel to The Last Guardian of Everness
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John C. Wright, Author Tor Books $25.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-312-84871-2
Fans of John C. Wright's SF trilogy (The Golden Age, etc.) will welcome his thought-provoking fantasy debut, The Last Guardian of Everness: Being the First Part of the Dreaming. Watchman Galen Waylock, whose family has guarded the dream-gate for 1,00
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John C. Wright, Author . Tor $24.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1131-3
At first glance, Wright's myth-infused fantasy looks like something older Harry Potter fans might enjoy with its creaky British boarding school setting and its five ageless orphans—Colin, Quentin, Victor, Vanity and Amelia—each with...
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John C. Wright, Author . Tor $25.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-765-31496-3
Five unusual students at an isolated English boarding school—Amelia, Vanity, Colin, Quentin and Victor—fought to uncover their true secret identities in Orphans of Chaos
(2005), only to have their memories stolen (again) by their...
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John C. Wright, Author . Tor $25.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1629-5
Questions of identity and personal purpose fill this inconsistent sequel to A.E. van Vogt’s 1940s SF pulp thriller The World of Null-A
. Gilbert Gosseyn, a double-brained telepath embroiled in intergalactic intrigue, struggles to undermine...
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John C. Wright. Tor, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2970-7
Wright continues his latest space opera (following The Judge of Ages) in this galaxy-spanning extravaganza with nods to the Odyssey, Shakespeare, and Japanese legend, as well as classic visionary and military SF. Brilliant posthumans Ximen del...
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John C. Wright. Tor, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8160-6
In this lugubrious far-future epic, Wright concludes his Eschaton Sequence (after The Architect of Aeons) by bringing his hero, Menelaus Montrose, to the far end of time. For much of this volume, Montrose has center stage to himself as he seeks his...
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John C. Wright. Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2927-1
Decades after the world has descended into anarchy, Menelaus Montrose dreams of making it better. He jumps at the chance to escape backward Texas, now an independent country, to participate in a daring expedition to recover antimatter from an alien...
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John C. Wright, Author, Judi Wright Lashnits, With Rodale Press $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57954-002-9
What would you do if your dog was terrified of your new lover? Or if she ate her way through your new kitchen cabinets to hide from a thunderstorm? Applied animal behaviorist Wright's (Is Your Cat Crazy?) latest book tells how he helps exasperated...
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