He graduated from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at William and Mary and worked in both law and journalism before embarking on his career as a science fiction writer and commentator. Wright (at least, in the realm of blogs and livejournals, to which he is a regular contributor) is, “If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.” This remark brilliantly encapsulates the nature of Wright the writer: a man deeply entrenched in the landscape of popular science fiction-a genre he once described as “one chamber in the sprawling, Gormenghastian pile” of fantasy and horror (and which this interviewer could not resist quoting as any sentence that uses the word “Gormenghastian” ought to be shouted from rooftops)-and gravely committed to the presupposition that “objective moral order” is the bedrock of all good literature.Ī recent convert to Catholicism-by way of Lutheranism and atheism-Wright is a critically acclaimed science fiction author, most notably of the Golden Age and Chronicles of Chaos trilogies. The most widely attributed quote to John C.
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