The Golden Age

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"The Golden Age \s aptly titled-it evokes the best of the golden age of science fiction. Transcendence, big ideas, slam-bang action-it's all Jaere, in the first significant debut of the new millennium." • —Robert J: Sawyer, Nebula Award, winner and author of Hominids
The Golden Age is IQ.OQgf years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary uto^raKciety filled with immortal humans.
Phaethon, o^^fflpanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family manal^W^ebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, 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 I believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. Is he indeed an exile from himself? He cani: resist investigating, even though to do so could mean the loss of his inheritance, his very place in... Tovább

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"The Golden Age \s aptly titled-it evokes the best of the golden age of science fiction. Transcendence, big ideas, slam-bang action-it's all Jaere, in the first significant debut of the new millennium." • —Robert J: Sawyer, Nebula Award, winner and author of Hominids
The Golden Age is IQ.OQgf years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary uto^raKciety filled with immortal humans.
Phaethon, o^^fflpanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family manal^W^ebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, 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 I believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. Is he indeed an exile from himself? He cani: resist investigating, even though to do so could mean the loss of his inheritance, his very place in society. His quest musf be to regain his true identity and fulfill the destiny he chose for himself.
The Golden Age is just the beginning of Phaethon's story, which will
continue in The Phoenix Exultant, forthcoming from Tor. *
"The Golden Age offers an intriguing and stunning look at future society-and its problems." -L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
"Think Coleridge and Xanadu-except this is no fragment, but a beautifully realized, sprawling space epic of an evolved humanized solar system teeming with artificial intelligences and life-forms. Wright wields a poetic vision that is at once intimate and intricate yet vast and dazzling." -Paul Levinson, author of The Consciousness Plague Vissza