Kickstarting Joy!
Just wanted to make folks aware of our current Kickstarter.
If you have been following Starquest, great! If not, if you loved Star Wars and Space Opera, this series is for you!
My husband, author John C. Wright, loved Star Wars as a lad. However, he was so disappointed by The Last Jedi that he wrote an entire book as a takedown: The Last Straw: A Critical Autopsy of a galaxy far, far away. His analysis is so complete that people have reported using this book for How To Write Classes. There’s a great audiobook, too, read by the great Ken Dickason.
The Christmas that this movie came out, we were coming back fron a Christmas party and began discussing what we would have done with a Star Wars movie. Our sons and I came up with an idea of what we would have done, and, for fun, John wrote it up as if he had actually seen this movie. This article is one of his most requested. You can see it here:
Review of the Movie We’ve All Been Waiting For by John C. Wright
This post opens:
Like many people, when I heard the news that the Disney corporation had purchased the rights to make Star Wars sequels, I feared they might gut the heart of the series, fumble even basic storytelling principles, and insult the viewers with Mary Sue heroines, diversity hire characters, tangled yet aimless plots, deconstruction and desecration of the original fan-favorite heroes, all topped off with heavy-handed political posturing crammed down the throat of the audience, mangling and mutating the most beloved franchise in movie history into an putrid and unsightly sewer fire.
I am glad to report that I need not have fretted. Two films of the new trilogy are out, and the filmmakers avoided all these pitfalls and pratfalls.
And it ends:
This was pure unabashed fun, folks. I am sure that, somewhere, in some other galaxy far, far away, or some time long ago or in times to come, a world curiously like our Earth exists, a nearly perfect twin. But it will have this one difference: their Star Wars franchise fell into the hands of incompetent boobs who cared more about political correctness than telling a story.
I pity the audiences on that world. They will never know what they might have had.
Some of John’s fans liked this so much that they asked him to write it, and he made up a new background for a Star Wars/Pulp Serial style story, and that is Starquest.
The series is great fun. I am actually the main editor, and I can tell, it just gets better and better!
You can join in on the fun of the new Kickstarter Campaign. You can get the books here cheaper than anywhere else, plus there’s fun Starquest swag.
The purpose was to get funds to copyedit the rest of the Starquest books—but we’ve blown way past that and are into the third or fourth Stretch Goal.
If you back for a dollar, you get a free Starquest short story and the chance to vote on which of John’s unpublished works to get new covers for (plus copies of the ebooks for any books the campaign covers.
Come by and check it out!
Join in the fun with Starquest! Star Pirates and Space Princesses have never been so much fun!
