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A second quote from Cecil Chesterton, brother to GK Chesterton, from his slim volume A History of the United States (1919). I quote it here to solicit the opinions of my readers as to the soundn...

http://scifiwright.com/2024/05/quote-from-cecil-chesterton-part-ii/

Quote from Cecil Chesterton, brother to GK Chesterton, from his slim volume A History of the United States (1919). I quote it here to help quell the eternal and eternally foolish false controvers...

http://scifiwright.com/2024/05/quote-from-cecil-chesterton/

A Reader with the binary name of The Deuce wrote a post on the self-defeating nature of multiverse arguments. I reprint it here as a guest post. The biggest problem with the multiverse idea (beyo...

http://scifiwright.com/2024/04/infinite-problems-with-infinite-universes/

A community service post, by my lovely and talented wife,  who writes under her pen name, L. Jagi Lamplighter, on how to format a manuscript: https://theartandcraftofwriting.substack.com/p/forma...

http://scifiwright.com/2024/04/lamplighter-on-formatting/

As a public service, we reprint last year’s column for any readers who may have missed it. For this Thanksgiving, let us give thanks for the lesson learned by the Pilgrims in the first harsh ye...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/11/thanksgiving-the-vanity-of-platos-conceit-2/

From the Pen of Michael Z Williamson, genius. This originally appeared here in 2014, but was worth reposting. Dear United Nations: I note with approval that there’s a bill before the US Congres...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/11/on-reparations-for-historic-collective-wrongs-2/

Hilaire Belloc generously agreed to pen an essay on the most recent topics, ripped from current headlines, for my journal today. That is did so precisely one ninety-two years ago, in 1931, is a t...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/06/guest-column-the-new-paganism/

I thought this worth reprinting for those who had never seen it. A reminder of folksy Americanism from the prior Turn of the Century. Enjoy. 1899 A Message to Garcia By Elbert Hubbard In all this...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/06/a-message-to-garcia-by-hubbard/

My beautiful and talented wife reports, that, at long last, the final installment of her essay Defending the Wood Perilous. She may, in time, write more on the subject, but this is the culminatio...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/06/and-all-the-powers-of-hell/

  Wisdom from our Eastern Orthodox brethren concerning Logismoi which is the struggle to bring thoughts into meek obedience. Our own PJ Wizard brought this useful word to my attention. Here are ...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/05/logismoi/

This article was written for Tangent #18, Spring 1997  by the great Dave Wolverton. Reprinted here in unauthorized form for the sake of preserving this significant essay. The words below are his...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/05/on-writing-as-a-fantasist/

A reader with the sunny, angelic, yet septentrionic name of Uriel7 penned a miniature guest column last year, which was brought to my attention again, and which I think merits repeating: There ar...

http://scifiwright.com/2023/05/seven-answers-to-the-problem-of-pain-2/

A unexpected guest column from our own radio-jockeyish yet thaumaturgical RJ Wizard. The words below are his. Perhaps we should heed them: These comments follow a pattern. Mr. Wright posts the la...

http://scifiwright.com/2022/10/this-is-the-work-to-be-done/

I found this comment while wandering at random amid the wilds of social media, and asked Mr. LePresto to share it with you. The words below are his: Shout out to my man Celeborn. According to the...

http://scifiwright.com/2022/09/coop-le-presto-on-celeborns-glory/

A friend sent me this remark, and I pass it along without comment: The issue Martin ran into with ASOIAF is, ironically, one of this own hand… he spent five books subverting expectations, kill...

http://scifiwright.com/2022/06/remark-on-geo-rr-martin/