The Golden Age
2002 • 416 pages
Ratings7
Average rating3
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Ratings7
Average rating3
"The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale - the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia - Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion." "Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets first an old man who accuses him of being an impostor and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself." And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system - Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal - among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre lifeforms that are partly both, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned that warranted such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity.
Series
3 primary booksThe Golden Oecumene is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by John C. Wright.
Series
3 primary booksL'Âge d'or is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by John C. Wright.
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I liked the creativity of the ideas in this book. The world building was great. It was a little overlong. For me, its greatest crime is that it ends without an ending.
3.8/5
The fact that it has the worst cliffhanger I've ever read and that I pretty much dislike books with that sense of ‘buy the next in the series to know what happen with this very important event', made it a bit difficult to enjoy it 100%.
