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Publishers Weekly grants all us Phoenixers a starred review of Clockwork Phoenix 3:

Clockwork Phoenix 3

Edited by Mike Allen, Norilana (www.norilana. com), $11.95 paper (316p) ISBN 978-1-60762062-4
Allen’s third volume of extraordinary short stories reaches new heights of rarity and wonder. Marie Brennan sets the bar high with “The Gospel of Nachash,” a fine reinterpretation of the Adam and Eve legend from a fresh perspective. Tori Truslow’s scholarly “Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine’s Day&rdquo...

One Answer to a Question About Chastity

Part of an ongoing discussion. A reader with the impressively Vikingish name of Rolf Andreassen who blogs at the even more impressively Vikingishly named ynglingasaga.wordpress.com provides an answer to some comments and questions of mine concerning the new standards (I use the word advisedly, if not ironically) concerning love, romance, and chastity.  The conversation also reaches to topics of loyalty and chivalry.

I have some questions I hope to ask Mr. Andraessen about his curious...

Wright's Writing Corner: Romantic Tension Two: Catching the Lightning—Part One

This article is on the pains and cares writers without a natural knack for the craft must suffer to learn it, with particulars on capturing the levinbolt sensation of romance.

Slowly, painstakingly, I have taught myself one area of storytelling after another. Description was so hard for me. I spent years trying to learn to write even simple descriptions. I would copy by hand passages in books by authors I liked. I would sit and describe the same thing over and over. Sometimes, I wonder if...

A Sad Tale

Well, I just got a royalty check, and, after paying off my bookie Sky Masterson, my bar tab at Guido's Family Fun Drinkatorium, the drug pushers and whoremasters from the Purple Gang, and paying some money toward the principle of that unwise loan I took from the Sharquino Family, and buying my second child back from the Gypsy band run by 'One-eye', not to mention my 'donation' to the crooked cops, Officer Gruntch and Officer McScrewel, who would otherwise tattle to my parole officer Crusher M...

Unkempt Personal Appearance! Time is 6.30, not 6.00

I wanted to remind the eleven people and two trolls who read my blog (thanks, Mom!) that I will be making a personal spectacle of myself, I mean a personal appearance on May 25th -- THAT IS TODAY --- I will be giving a Lecture at the Catholic Information Center.  The title of the talk is 'TOTAL CONVERSION -- A Science Fiction Writer's Personal Close Encounter with God'

 Mr. Wright will discuss the events, both natural and supernatural, including
both philosophical conundrums and ecstatic...

Abortion Survivor Escapes Being Cremated as Medical Waste, Killed by Doctors

This piece comes from the Thoughts of a Regular Guy journal. I reprint it here in full without comment. It speaks for itself. I leave the examination of the cause and effect relation between the Sexual Revolution, the Marxist Revolution, and what we might call the ‘Subhumanist’ Revolution, which treats human life as animal life, as an instrumentality to serve the pleasure of the sovereign state or the sovereign individual, for another day.

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“Aborted” Baby Almost Cremated Alive!

We...

Engineering Infinity

Today I saw the cover art for Mr. Jonathan Strahan’ s latest anthology, ENGINEERING INFINITY (which is available for pre-order on Amazon.com).  In addition to Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, and Charles Stross, yours truly also makes an appearance in these pages. Please be impressed with this handsome cover.

More below the jump

A Question about Chastity

In this space, in recent days, there has been a discussion of male chastity and chivalry, and the proper respect due to the fairer sex. Some readers, perhaps those of a feminist bent, objected that to expect chastity from males was an insult to women, or a type of oppression. Other readers, perhaps of an opposite opinion which we might call masculinist, objected that the sins of the daughters of Eve were overwhelming, and that I should not restrict my hard words to the men alone. Some readers...

Just a Reminder -- Tomorrow is Draw the Prophet Day!

I fully expect all of my Progressive friends who began to whine and complain that I was threatening them with Theocracy by converting to Christianity to join the worldwide effort to send a message of courageous disrespect to those religious zealots who are in reality supporting theocracy and the spread of theocracy in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and threatening Europe with dhimmitude.

I quote here in full an article by Mark Goldblatt of Reason Magazine. (Much saucy and disrespectful la...

Wright's Writing Corner -- Romance!

This week's post is thoughts on Romantic Tension with a question for the reader.

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