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Amazon.com Review The Golden Age is the most ambitious and impressive science fiction novel since China Miéville's Perdido Street Station . Amazingly, it is John C. Wright's debut novel. In the far future, humans have become as gods: immortal, almost omnipotent, able to create new suns and resculpt body and mind. A trusting son of this future, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, discovers the rulers of the solar system have erased entire centuries from his mind. When he attempts to regain his lost memories, the whole society of the Golden Oecumene opposes him. Like his mythical namesake, Phaethon has flown too high and been cast down. He has committed the one act forbidden in his utopian universe. Now he must find out what it is--and who he is. A novel influenced by Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and A.E. van Vogt, yet uniquely itself, The Golden Age presents a complex and thoroughly imagined future that will delight science fiction fans. John C. Wright has a gift for big, bold concepts and extrapolations, and his smoothly written novel pushes cyberpunk's infotech density to a new level, while abandoning cyberpunk's nihilistic noir tone for SF's original optimism. Big ideas are join

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Author

Wright, John C.

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812579840

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.07 / 5 (2,244 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14