Golden Age (Tor Paperback): The Golden Age (Series #3) (Paperback)

from Pferdina

The beginning of this book was so confusing that I almost stopped reading. The world created for the story is complex and rich, but it is not explained very much. I was on my own to figure out what was going on. Eventually, I caught up and the plot was worth the effort. I really came to enjoy the...

from rocalisa

The protagonist of this novel is Phaethon of Radamanthus House on an Earth many millenia in the future where humanity is immortal and the people of society come in a range of material and mental forms. As the book begins, Phaethon discovers that there are large holes in him memory, ranging back t...

from amaraduende

This book is a twisty turny maze of hidden memories and factions vying for control of a weird distopian future where the human right to fail and take risks is in danger. It's also monstrously imaginative and just a joy to read.Can't wait to read the second one.

from dulac3

John C. Wright's _The Golden Age_ is a worthy read. Taking place in the far future, 10,000 years from now, it is a world where the transhuman 'singularity' has occurred long before and the population of the solar system is made up of humans of massive (and varied) intellects and powers as well as...

from ben_a

It's the rare transhumanist story that faces possible defects of a singularity society. Wright's 'Golden Oecumene' is excellent in this respect -- a well imagined singularity future, dense with both good and evil. In the initial scene a 'primitive' has created a piece of conceptual art as caustic...