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sAs part of our ongoing move to better serve the readers of Castalia House’s books, we are in the process of making our entire ebook catalog available from the Arkhaven store in both EPUB and Kindle formats. While it will take until the end of February to remove all of our books from Kindle Select, […]
The Book of Feasts & Seasons: Christmas Eve
Saturday , 22, December 2018 Uncategorized Leave a commentTHE BOOK OF FEASTS & SEASONS, by John C. Wright, is a beautifully mind-bending stroll with a grandmaster of science fiction through the annual Catholic calendar. Over the course of the year, from January to December, the author takes his inspiration from ten different holidays and explores their meanings in a series of stories of […]
Sensor Sweep: Christopher Tolkien, Robert Jordan, White Wolf, Outlaw King
Monday , 26, November 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsFiction (Weekly Standard): In 1975, Christopher Tolkien left his fellowship at New College, Oxford, to edit his late father’s massive legendarium. The prospect was daunting. The 50-year-old medievalist found himself confronted with 70 boxes of unpublished work. Thousands of pages of notes and fragments and poems, some dating back more than six decades, were stuffed […]
Castalia House New Release: SUPERLUMINARY: THE WORLD ARMADA
Tuesday , 3, July 2018 Fiction, Just Released, News Leave a commentCastalia House is extremely pleased to announce that SUPERLUMINARY: THE WORLD ARMADA by John C. Wright is now available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. Although the Lords of Creation survived the awesome onslaught of the world-killing space vampires, there is nowhere in the lifeless galaxy that they can hope to hide their planets and people forever. How […]
The Lords of Creation have learned that although they rule the solar system with their god-like scientific knowledge, there are even more powerful forces to be feared lurking out in the dark depths of space. The vampiric necroforms are a massive empire of anti-life, terrible beyond all imagining, ruling a vast network of dead stars […]
Castalia House New Release: SUPERLUMINARY: THE SPACE VAMPIRES
Tuesday , 5, June 2018 Just Released, News 1 CommentCastalia House is very pleased to announce the publication of Superluminary: The Space Vampires by science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright. The Lords of Creation have learned that although they rule the solar system with their god-like scientific knowledge, there are even more powerful forces to be feared lurking out in the dark depths of space. The […]
An Second Excerpt from SUPERLUMINARY: THE LORDS OF CREATION
Wednesday , 14, March 2018 Fiction, Publications Leave a commentBeing assassinated once may be an accident. Being assassinated twice is enemy action. Aeneas Tell of the House of Tell is one of the youngest Lords of Creation. His family rules the Nine Worlds through its control of the ultra-advanced technology that has permitted the colonization of the entire solar System. More gods than men, […]
An Excerpt from AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND
Wednesday , 28, February 2018 Fiction, Publications 3 CommentsAWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright’s brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel, The Night Land. Part novel, part anthology, the book consists of four related novellas, “Awake in the Night”, “The Cry of the Night-Hound”, “Silence of the Night”, […]
An Excerpt from: SUPERLUMINARY: THE LORDS OF CREATION
Wednesday , 21, February 2018 Fiction, Publications 1 CommentIn the 1940s, Edmond Hamilton earned the title of “World Wrecker” for his galaxy-smashing space operas. Now, seventy years later, John C. Wright sets out to inherit Hamilton’s coveted mantle with the masterpiece of pulp madness, SUPERLUMINARY: The Lords of Creation. And to whet the appetite for this ambitious spectacle of science, fantasy, and adventure, Castalia House offers […]
Castalia House New Release: SUPERLUMINARY: THE LORDS OF CREATION
Monday , 19, February 2018 Fiction, News, Publications 1 CommentOne assassination may be an accident. Two assassinations is enemy action. Aeneas Tell of the House of Tell is one of the youngest Lords of Creation. His family rules the Nine Worlds through its control of the ultra-advanced technology that has permitted the colonization of the entire solar System. More gods than men, the Lords […]
Urban Fantasy/Science Fiction: Lazy Gimmick or Legitimate Genre?
Saturday , 20, January 2018 Authors, Fiction 12 CommentsTyping “Urban Fantasy” into Google results in 7.7 million results, dozens of Wiki articles, and a slew of book recommendations, many with covers that call to mind late 90’s schlock like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. (I can hear the furious typing already…) Now, I don’t pretend to have read every popular work classified as “urban fantasy”, especially […]
Yumiko Moth has discovered her name, but she still does not know who, or what, she is. What she has learned is that her mother is dead, her master has disowned her, and her beloved has vanished. And she also knows that the Day world is a very dangerous place for a Twilight girl, especially […]