Science Fiction and Fantasy author John C. Wright is quite the storyteller. I recently finished his new Hermetic Millennia (the sequel to his scifi Count To A Trillion) wishing the third book (of a projected five) was already done, instead of having to wait a year or more for the continuation of this series on interstellar travel and human evolution. A Tex-Mex gunslinger hero also doesn’t hurt.
Last night I finished Orphans of Chaos, the first book in an earlier fantasy collection of his and immediately moved on to its sequel Fugitives of Chaos, with just as much anticipation as for the science fiction, though in a different way. The Chaos stories are a sort of Harry Potter for adults enlarged by the physics of relativity and theories of multiple universes.
I had previously read his Golden Age series, space opera mixed with hard science, chiefly about biotechnology and networked computers.
All these books are informed by Wright’s seemingly immeasurable imagination, his mathematics, astronomy and literary education, his love for Greek myth, the history of religion, and (delight of delights) a Libertarian political sensibility you don’t often find in scifi or fantasy nowadays. Leftists beware.
I could say more, but you get the idea. Don’t except an easy read. Wright packs more ideas into a paragraph than most authors do into a whole story. But do try the books, you won’t be sorry.
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