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SWAN KNIGHT’S SWORD by John C. Wright

Christmas has come early for John C. Wright fans, with the publication of the third and final book in THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE trilogy, SWAN KNIGHT’S SWORD.


Gilberic Parzival Moth is a strange and lonely boy who has grown up without a father, raised by a single mother who moves from town to town in fear of something she will not name. His only friends are animals, with whom he has always been able to speak. And after surviving his bewildering encounter with the two kings of Elfland and their many strange and wonderful and terrible subjects, as chronicled in FEAST OF THE ELFS, Gilberic finds himself honor-bound to travel to a house of living death called the Green Chapel.

Accompanied only by his faithful dog and following the directions of a talking horse, Gilberic must go against his beloved mother’s wishes and go in search of the Green Knight, the mysterious giant who is said to dwell in the chapel, and whom he had previously beheaded. SWAN KNIGHT’S SWORD is the third and final book of THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE, the first volume of MOTH & COBWEB, an astonishing new series about magical worlds of Day, Night, and Twilight by John C. Wright. 

John C. Wright is one of the living grandmasters of science fiction and the author of THE GOLDEN AGE, AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND, and IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY, to name just three of his exceptional books. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, for the Hugo Award, and his novel SOMEWHITHER won the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel at Dragoncon.

SWAN KNIGHT’S SWORD is now available on Amazon for $4.99. It is 180 pages and DRM-free. It is old-school fantasy of the very best kind, more in the mode of Lord Dunsany, C.S. Lewis, and Lloyd Alexander than JRR Tolkien and GRR Martin.

THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE trilogy is now complete.

The next trilogy will begin with the first book in the DARK AVENGER’S SIDEKICK, the fourth in the Moth & Cobweb series, DAUGHTER OF DANGER. THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE will be available in omnibus paperback, hardcover, and audio editions next year.

$10 off print books on Amazon

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ELIGIBLE CASTALIA HOUSE EDITIONS:

THE NINE LAWS: now in print

Your acceptance of shackles is your sentence of death.
In agreement to be helpless you abrogate and abandon your manhood and power. By limiting mobility of thought, word or deed you reduce your humanity and nobility of character.

The dark and difficult truth is that freedom is the most dangerous thing in the universe. In recognition that unbounded freedom is the natural order, and in your rejection of the artificial constraints of external imposition, comes the ability to attain complete prerogative of choice.

In this ability to choose is your manifestation of purpose, the concealment of vulnerability, and the decision to survive despite all odds and to endure any experience presented.

When each action, each thought, each emotion and each breath of life is, for you, the result of a choice – then you have attained the ultimate fountain of total wealth, which is freedom itself from the will of others and from imposition upon you of choices that are not your own.

In the acceptance of your choice alone is the nurtured and honored primacy of your own conscience.

You cannot force a man to abide by his conscience.

You cannot force a man to violate it.

For a man’s conscience is the conclusion of his bare and starkly naked dialogue with God. The direction of his determination into the will of Heaven arises from a command deliberately made to his immortal spirit.

You must utterly adhere to your own conscience, and discard any lesser demands upon your thought, your word and your deed. For your conscience is your alignment with the divine and the salvation of your spiritual resolution.

The laws of men are merely arguments of the violent.

The strictures of culture are but drifting ashes of the weak.

Love is a choice. Honor is a choice. Trust is a choice. Success is a choice. Glory and power and gold are a choice.

A Dark Triad Man knows that his freedom is his birthright and guards that freedom with savage and unflinching perseverance, even before the glittering throne of Caesar.

Without freedom there is nothing.

Freedom is the Sixth Law.

Ivan Throne’s fiercely uncompromising philosophical action manual, THE NINE LAWS, are now available in hardcover and paperback editions.

Black Friday deal

A few people asked me if Castalia House was going to do anything for Black Friday, the official start of the American Christmas shopping season. I didn’t really see how at first, until an idea struck me.

For the next 24 hours, if you buy a Castalia House print book in either paperback or hardcover, you can email us a copy of the Amazon or Barnes & Noble invoice dated 25 November 2016 and you will receive the Castalia House ebook of your choice from the list below. Limit three per customer; we don’t want to choke your email. Ebooks will be provided in EPUB format but are DRM-free for easy conversion to Kindle format with Calibre. Get the print books for Christmas presents and the ebooks for yourself. Or, I suppose, vice-versa.

Once you’ve bought your print books, email me with the invoice, the ebook(s) you want, and BLACK FRIDAY in the subject.

ELIGIBLE PRINT EDITIONS:

ELIGIBLE EBOOKS

  • 4GW Handbook
  • A History of Strategy
  • A Throne of Bones
  • Alien Game
  • Awake in the Night Land
  • Back From the Dead
  • Between Light and Shadow
  • Big Boys Don’t Cry
  • Brings the Lightning
  • City Beyond Time
  • Clio & Me
  • Compost Everything
  • Cuckservative
  • Equality
  • God, Robot
  • Grow or Die
  • Hyperspace Demons
  • Iron Chamber of Memory
  • Loki’s Child
  • Mutiny in Space
  • On the Existence of Gods
  • On War
  • One Bright Star to Guide Them
  • QUANTUM MORTIS A Man Disrupted
  • QUANTUM MORTIS A Mind Programmed
  • Riding the Red Horse
  • SJWs Always Lie
  • Somewhither
  • Summa Elvetica
  • Swan Knight’s Son
  • The Altar of Hate
  • The Book of Feasts & Seasons
  • The Missionaries
  • The War in Heaven
  • The World in Shadow
  • The Wrath of Angels
  • There Will Be War, various volumes

An interview with Mike Cernovich

EveryJoe interviews the bestselling author of MAGA MINDSET:

EveryJoe: In your book, MAGA Mindset: Making YOU and America Great Again, you claim that America’s motto might as well be “You can’t say that!” due to oppressive political correctness. How can individuals reclaim their free speech and fight back against outrage culture?

Mike Cernovich: Free speech in America is in a strange place. On the one hand, people are self-censoring due to fear of negative feedback. Americans are speaking out less than ever in history. Online hate mobs have ruined lives.

On the other side, there has never been more opportunity for free speech. Social media allows us to bypass fake news media gatekeepers, to share our message directly with the people. You can write a blog, start a podcast, create a YouTube channel, and even using social media platforms (although the future of these are less certain) like Twitter and Facebook to spread your message to the entire world.

People can support free speech by speaking truth to power, perhaps anonymously as a commentator. You can also share links to articles and video you find compelling. Those who aren’t in a position to speak publicly, due to the real risk of backlash, can also support those who share a positive and high impact message by providing resources to truth tellers.

EJ: You wrote and published MAGA Mindset weeks before Trump won the election. At the time, nearly every poll had Hillary Clinton winning by a comfortable margin, but the book hinges on a Trump victory. Was that kind of bold move an example of the MAGA mindset in action?

MC: Yes! That was a meta-move of mine. How can I expect people to trust my writing if I don’t live it?

I went all in on my beliefs. Had Trump lost, my own credibility would have been destroyed. In MAGA Mindset, readers learn how to think big and make bold moves. The first lesson was taught in real-time by my choice to release MAGA Mindset before the election.

Publishing a book explaining why Trump won when the “experts” said he would lose is an example of the MAGA Mindset in action.

EJ: At EveryJoe, we recently published an article that explained how Gamergate elected Donald Trump. Do you think Gamergate played a role in the election?

MC: Gamergate was the first pushback against the thought police. Before Gamergate, people who supported free speech felt isolated and alone. Gamergate showed that millions of people support free speech.

Moreover, Gamergate exposed unethical journalism of all types. People began trusting the media less than ever before. While I wouldn’t say Gamergate got Trump elected, it was a powerful force for free speech.

Read the whole thing there.

Writing sundries

So, here is the bad news, the good news, and a few other things.

  1. There is no way I’m going to complete A SEA OF SKULLS, get it edited, and get it out before Christmas. It’s just not happening. Even if I downed tools on everyone else’s books, ignored Infogalactic, and only did one blog post a day, it would be cutting it close. And I’m not going to do any of those things.
  2. However, as someone observed that a) what I already have written is on the order of four times longer than other novels we publish, b) it’s arguably better than ATOB, and c) people have been waiting a long time for it, I was inspired to concoct a plan that I thought might be of interest to Selenoth fans.

You may recall George Martin won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella for “Blood of the Dragon”, which was actually the Danerys chapters from A GAME OF THRONES. You may also note that Amazon permits the updating of ebook files.

So, I said to our Production Editor, what if we release a version of A SEA OF SKULLS that is somewhere between 100k and 120k words, sell it for a reduced price of $5.99, then update the file in the spring to the full 295k-word version and let everyone update the file, after which we’ll raise the price to the full $7.99 we intend to charge for the whole book? That will give all the early readers a discount as well as the chance to return to Selenoth before the end of the year, even if the full experience of Book Two will have to wait. He said, “I would go for that.” So, we decided to see what you think of the idea.

Anyhow, I’m sorry to disappoint you all in this regard, but it is an option. If you think it’s a good idea, let us know in the comments. If you think it’s a stupid idea, please feel free do the same. Regardless, I will promise that the full version a) will be finished and b) no one who buys the initial version will have to pay any more to get the rest of it. I’m not Scalzi and Castalia House is not Tor; I’m not going to divide it into 10 30k parts, sell them all for a dollar, then package them together and resell the whole thing to you again. If you buy the initial version, you’ll get the whole thing. Eventually.

However, I do have some good news regarding Selenoth. First, we have an audiobook in the works. The English narrator is warming up on the smaller books, but he does intend to tackle both A THRONE OF BONES and A SEA OF SKULLS in 2017. Second, both hardcover and paperback versions of A THRONE OF BONES will be available in time for Christmas. They’ll be monsters, running around 915 pages, case laminate for the hardcover, and slightly taller than the Marcher Lord editions. We’ll also be using Garamond for the font.

In other news, I’m happy to say that my next non-fiction book will be about the Alt-Right and it will be out before summer. I’m working with a co-writer whom I will not presently identify, but let’s just say it is going to be every bit as hard-hitting and relevant and accurate as SJWAL and Cuckservative.

And finally, I can promise a new John C. Wright novel before Christmas, possibly even before the end of this month. This is Book Three of Moth & Cobweb.

You may now proceed with your best Vox RR Day jokes….

Video review of SJWAL


“It’s the first time in my life I’ve ever read an entire book from cover to cover in one sitting…. it was that fantastic!”


In addition to the book, you may want to contemplate triggering an SJW with the SJWAL shirts. We’ve got a black one now, for the subtle “wait, what’s up with that” triggering, and the purple one for the direct splodey-head, how-dare-you effect.

An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity


Today, Castalia House is pleased to announce a debut novel by J. Mulrooney, AN EQUATION OF ALMOST INFINITE COMPLEXITY.

When the devil moves in next door to Cooper Smith Cooper’s house, Cooper doesn’t know what to make of him at first. But when the unexpectedly neighborly Scratch helps the unemployed actuary find a job at a local insurance company with the help of some inside information into the activities of Death, Cooper decides the old devil might not be so bad after all. 


 The only problem, Cooper thinks, is how to conceal from his fellow actuaries his newfound ability to perfectly predict the time and place of people’s deaths. And then, there is also the small matter of the screams of his recently deceased neighbor coming from Scratch’s basement furnace to consider. 


 AN EQUATION OF ALMOST INFINITE COMPLEXITY is a sardonically funny debut novel from J. Mulrooney.

This was one of the first novels I signed to Castalia House, and it has been nearly two years in the making. The genre is a little hard to describe, as it has fantasy elements, satirical elements, and literary elements. I would put it somewhere between The Missionaries and Loki’s Child; it’s not quite as funny as the former, not anywhere nearly as pedal-to-the-metal insane as the latter. It is intelligent, witty, and has a peculiar sensibility all its own; there is, perhaps, just a little John Irving maple syrup flavor to it.

Our production editor loved this one and says it is his favorite of all the novels we’ve published to date. Regardless, it certainly has one of the best first lines since Larry Correia’s first Monster Hunter novel.

When the devil moved in next door, Cooper Smith Cooper had the same question everyone else did: how would it affect the property values?

A new Castalia author

We are extremely pleased to welcome to the ranks of Castalia House novelists one of the most successful authors of modern military science fiction, David VanDyke. David has published with Castalia before; his “What Price Humanity?” was published in There Will Be War Vol. X and was a finalist for Best Novelette in the 2016 Hugo Awards.

David is also a military veteran who has served in two branches of the U.S. military, the US Army and the US Air Force. As an author, he is chiefly known for Plague Wars, the bestselling mil-SF series that currently consists of 12 books and has made him one of the 100 best-selling authors in science fiction. He is also, with BV Larson, the co-author of several Star Force novels. Amazon currently has him ranked at #86 in the science fiction category.

So, you can understand that Castalia House is proud to announce we will be publishing print editions of the entire Plague Wars series, paperback and hardcover, in both English and German. The first volume, Plague Wars Book 0, The Eden Plague, is now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and can also be ordered by your local bookstore.

THE PLAGUE WARS


Not all plagues kill. But there are those with much to lose from the advancement of the human race, and there is nothing more dangerous to the hidden powers of the world than a plague with the ability to improve Mankind through simple human contact. When veteran combat lifesaver Daniel Markis finds a mystery woman with armed invaders in his home and it all goes sideways, he turns to his brothers in arms to fight back. On the run from the shadowy Company, soon he finds himself in a war for possession of a genetic engineering puzzle that threatens the stability of the world. But who is behind it all – and are they even human?


No zombies were harmed in the making of this book. In fact, no zombies appear anywhere in this book. Seriously. It’s not a zombie book.


The Eden Plague is Book 0 in David VanDyke’s bestselling Plague Wars series.

We expect to publish Plague Wars Book 1, Reaper’s Run, and Book 2, Skull’s Shadows, by the end of November, and to publish the German versions of all three before the end of the year. As I have a few remaining Audible codes for the SJWAL audiobook, the first 10 people to buy the hardcover edition of THE EDEN PLAGUE from Amazon can email me a copy of their receipt to receive a free download code. Be sure to put HARD EDEN in the subject so I will see it.

But that’s not the only new print edition we have to announce. As you may know, of all the many excellent books we have published, mine included, the one of which I am most proud is THE MISSIONARIES by Owen Stanley. The book has been very well-received, has the highest Amazon ratings out of all of our books, and is a worthy throwback to an older, more literary age.

It is now available in hardcover and paperback editions, and is also available at Barnes & Noble. I’m sure those who have read it will be delighted to learn that I have spoken with Mr. Stanley, who has informed me that he is now working on a new novel. If you’re a Stanley fan, this is definitely one book that merits a place of honor on the bookshelf.

And finally, Scott Adams says: “If you’re baffled by the election results, you might want to read some #1 best selling books.”

Making bestsellers great again

Mike Cernovich is tearing up Amazon post-election.

Never seen that before. (It’s because we put out a Createspace version in case the paperback didn’t make it out before the election.)

If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, you can go Kindle, Paperback, or Hardcover. It’s an espresso of analysis, small but very intense.


The media believes that Donald Trump rose to power and claimed the Republican nomination for President through his public speaking skills, his charisma, and the force of his will. But the truth is that his rise was inevitable, due to the media’s stranglehold on American culture.


There are four engines driving the Trump train forward. First, Trump is a nationalist, so he puts America and American citizens first. Every other candidate in all four parties, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and Green, is a globalist who does not care about the United States and is unwilling to give any priority to American workers over their foreign competitors. No less than the Democrats, the GOP is characterized by a desire to change the essential nature of the United States through unlimited immigration. While many Republicans in Congress may disagree with that assessment, their failure to take any non-defensive actions has already spoken much louder than their words. While they have defeated amnesty attempts by both the Bush and Obama administrations, they have taken no steps whatsoever toward restoring America’s traditional demographic balance.


Second, Trump has rejected the concept of white guilt. In the U.S., and throughout the West as a whole, whites are singled out as the evildoers of society. We’ve even seen social justice warriors claim that only whites are even capable of being racist, because “racism is prejudice plus power.” That appears to be the only mathematical equation they’re capable of constructing. They are certainly unaware of the historical one that states “diversity plus proximity equals war.”

Mike Cernovich, MAGA Mindset: Making YOU and America Great Again, 2016