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If you like AI concepts or the simulation of personalities in a computer environment including all the options that this offers, this book is for you. But that's not all. As the story unfolds it's less and less clear which side plays which role and how our hero can overcome the obstacles.
A true masterpiece. Nov 08, M. Backes rated it it was amazing. Still my favorite science fiction novel of the last few years. Incredible vision of the far future that blends Jack Vance and Vernor Vinge into a classic space opera. Sep 30, Bill Burris rated it liked it. Not a smooth read. He tries too hard to show off his knowledge of the "great books". Sometimes Phaethon comes across sounding like John Galt. Jun 13, Mary Catelli rated it it was amazing Shelves: sf-far-future , philosophy-fic , sf-solar-system , of-ai.
This does not open a trilogy of three independent stories; it is a book chopped up into three parts with cliff-hangers for the endings of the first two. It took me a bit to get into this one, because this is a story of the far-distant, transhumanist universe. Sophotects -- immensely powerful AI -- humans who have rewired their minds to connect their conscious and subconscious in various configurations, Cerebellian minds that consist of many, many, many living organisms -- even "basic" humans have This does not open a trilogy of three independent stories; it is a book chopped up into three parts with cliff-hangers for the endings of the first two.
Sophotects -- immensely powerful AI -- humans who have rewired their minds to connect their conscious and subconscious in various configurations, Cerebellian minds that consist of many, many, many living organisms -- even "basic" humans have the ability to remove memories or alter their personalities, or create "partials" that will do their work for them and be reassimiliated back into the original mind.
Primitivists don't, but they could if they wanted to. Noemic recording allow people to have their minds and characters records so they can be revived. People can devise and share dream universes. The Cacophiles, the Nevernexters, resent that they will never receive an inheritance because their parents will never die.
People routinely use translators to accommodate their very different brain structures in communication, and sense filters to make their environments appear as they wish. Once upon a time, there was a extra-Solar colony at Cygnus X-1 to harvest the power of its black hole, but it fell silent.
Human life is found in the Solar System -- but all over the solar system. Jupiter has been imploded to set off hydrogen fusion. The mischievous Neptunians live in the farthest reaches, for its poverty, for the chance at freedom and solitude; they are notorious for such stunts as viruses and mindworms. Venus has been terraformed, the Sun is being tamed by the Solar Array, and the once-in-a-thosand year Transcedence is approaching. And in the middle of this, Phaethon wanders through a grove of genetically engineered trees that turn their leaves to where Saturn would shine, if it shone brightly enough, and an old man there jeers about "that reckless boy, what's his name, that Phaethon" -- something Phaethon has no memory of.
The old man vanishes in a manner Phaethon finds rude, and so he tries turning off his sense filter to find him again.
He learns that he has, for some reason, set his sense filter to block out Neputanians -- but with it off, he sees one. It pleads with him to come and let it free him from what has been imposed on him. His investigation reveals that he is missing memories.
Large chunks of them. Centuries of them, and he's only a few thousand years old. He could restore them -- but, he is warned, at the price of exile. His wife Daphne drops out of a dream-world competition to plead with him and, in an attempt to stop him, reveals the truth -- that she is not really his wife, who drowned herself in dreams, but an emancipated partial of her, changed to be more suitable.
And he learns that he is suing his own father, Helion, with a claim that his father is actually dead. Something happened between the last noetic recording of him, and the last version's death, that meant that the recovered Helion was not the same man. Or so he is claiming. He doesn't remember any of it. It gets even more complicated from there. Intrigue, the College of Hortators and exile, violence, the last soldier in the Solar System, an amazing ship, questions of identity, morality, individualism, and survival.
The horrors of letting everyone do as they please as long as they do not use force. Love and reconciliation and really, really, really cool toys. Jun 25, Jay Goemmer rated it it was amazing Shelves: science-fiction. I found John C. Super-science abounds here, with engineering projects well beyond the scope of current technology. All the same, Wright is able to clearly show how these high-tech advancements directly affect human beings and their variant forms.
Overall, a capitivating read if you let it suck you in. Despite its flowery and somewhat dense verbiage, this book is a pageturner. Unfortunately, I counted 5 spelling errors, which seem to be more common in books published here in the early 21st century. Whether that means copy editors are having to race over an exponentially increased number of manuscripts these days is hard to tell, but entirely possible.
You'll want to read all three books in this trilogy back to back, just so you can find out what happens next. The good news is that they've all been published, so you may want to check your local public library before hitting the bookstores. No doubt about it, I'll be tracking down more of this author's work.
Wright reader. May 18, Dean C. Moore rated it really liked it Shelves: singularity-sci-fi. Wright is one of the big names in Singularity Sci-Fi, which is a topic of great interest to me. His The Golden Age series has met with a tremendous amount of critical acclaim.
Hence, purchasing it was a bit of a no brainer. But for the rest of us, not looking to lose our humanity along the way, I must say I found this future world rather cold and off-putting. That may be all the more reason for readers who enjoy this sort of thing to jump in. Which is why I went with the 3. All the same, for any hard sci-fi fan, any Singularity fan, and anyone looking to author some books in these areas, this remains required reading.
Absolutely excellent This is my favorite book series, period. I implore you not to give up. It would be much more often, but I try to give it at least a year between, so it has a little time to fade. May 25, Howardstein rated it it was amazing. By far the best Sci-Fi book I've ever read. Symbolism is very well thought out. He does not stoop down in acts of lust as the protagonists of Asimov novels incessantly do, and he is notably persistent and uncowering in his quest.
No doubt this will only intensify in the sequels. This is definitely not your typical, mainstream sci-fi novel. It opened my eyes to the true potential of the genre and I have a greater appreciation for it. I will immediately start reading the sequel, The Phoenix Exultant, after I finish this review. View all 4 comments.
This is one of the smartest books I've ever read. Even for sci-fi, the number of ideas is staggering. My only disappointment is the incomplete ending; I wish I had been warned I would need to commit to the sequel as well. Jan 26, Roddy Williams rated it it was amazing Shelves: science-fiction , gothic-sf , artificial-intelligence , mythology , widescreen-baroque , amnesiac-hero , debut-novel , self. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the ve 'The Golden Age is 10, years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans.
His quest must be to regain his true identity and fulfil the destiny he chose for himself. Life is mostly lived under the beneficent guardianship of the Sophotech machine minds and experienced through computer-generated filters of perception. Everyone is immortal and the Golden Oecumene — as the civilisation is known — is divided into a multitude of cultures, philosophies and beliefs.
During the Millennial celebrations during which the great minds of the Sol Culture dictate the general course of the next thousand years Phaethon is approached by two individuals, both of whom suggest that he has a past of which he has no knowledge.
Thus the seed is sown and Phaethon is set upon a path to rediscover himself and possibly destroy himself in the process. There is, for instance, a Hamlet metaphor, in that Phaethon garbs himself as the Prince of Denmark while observing the celebrations and later, talking of his life, comments on his dead father and drowned wife. Indeed, his father is resurrected as a ghost of sorts. There is a parallel within the narrative, which is rather too complex to explain in detail here. This rather Dickian issue is at the heart of the novel since Phaethon has been castigated for an action he planned to carry out; an action of which he has no memory.
His quest is to recover his lost memories even though he is told that his previous self erased the memory willingly, not wanting his future self to experience them. May 17, Niklas Spitz rated it it was amazing. I realise only now after rereading several times, why others I recommended the book to faltered. The flights of fantasy are indulgent, if extraordinary, but I found myself glossing over theses opulent passages, because the story itself is a rare phenomenon, offering richly compelling reading.
A visionary, gripping and philosophically gratifying read. The Golden Age and the unmissable sequels in the trilogy, offer a detailed and intelligently extrapolated journey into the distant future, yet the I realise only now after rereading several times, why others I recommended the book to faltered.
The Golden Age and the unmissable sequels in the trilogy, offer a detailed and intelligently extrapolated journey into the distant future, yet the projected technology, philosophy and moral arguments remain visible from this evolutionary nascent time and place. The initial effort required to orient oneself in the story's otherwise intriguing concepts of space, time and the perceptions and iterations of an advanced civilisation, are richly rewarded within a chapter or three.
In otherwords, like so many great works, it requires a little effort. And if you make it onto the flow, you'll plow through the trilogy, richly rewarded. Indeed, a great collection worthy of a subsequent re-read or two as intimated. These volumes offer a lucid vision into the evolved future of humanity and civilisation, offering tools for reflection on where we are now, and where we may journey in terms of technology, philosophy, engineering, semantics, culture, intelligence, virtual and abstract reality, perversity, decadence, morality, art, fantasy and desire - where biology and neuro-form become increasingly augmented and interfaced with vast, benevolent, self-aware scholarly and planetary computer networks, adapted to suit divers purpose, function, ability and desire.
A time where nano and bio technologies, virtual reality and planetary engineering have come of age, enabling us to inhabit the far reaches of our solar system as virtual and physical immortals on the verge of venturing towards new star systems. Sep 26, Kerry rated it liked it Shelves: sf , , 6. 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 through at least the last years. As he tries to discover the truth, he begins to learn that all is not perfect in paradise. Civilisation has become stagnant and focussed on the safety of now, rather t 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.
Civilisation has become stagnant and focussed on the safety of now, rather than the possibilities of th future. Phaethon has threatened that stability and great measures have been taken to neutralise him. This first book of a trilogy focusses on Phaethon's attempts to rediscover the memories he has lost while avoiding exile from the society that sustains him all while learning what kind of man he had been before and how that compares to the man he is now.
Which does he want to be? I'm having real trouble working out what I thought of this book, as it felt something like a bipolar reading experience. There were parts that dragged me in and pulled me along and places where I felt like I was trying to wade through a bog.
As a far future novel, it was full of new technical terms, but these didn't particularly worry me. I loved one of the main themes, that is summed up by a quote from Babylon 5 where Sinclair says that "all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars" which has always resonated with me.
And to say any more out that would introduce spoilers, which I'm trying not to do. But all the same, now I've finished it and also while I was reading it there was some kind of weight that dragged me down and made it a struggle.
I'm not sure what it was though. There was a certain feeling of "just get on with it already" I think. I alternated between desperately wanting to read the rest of the story and deciding I couldn't face it. I'm still not sure. I expect I will read the other books, but not just yet as I want a few easier reads especially since I also worked hard to read Kushiel's Dart and had a similar ambivalent reaction to that in between. The Golden Age describes our world far in the future where technology was developed to the point of being almost symbiotic with humans and where nanotechnology is just another skin.
In the first pages I was overwhelmed with all the new concepts and notions but the author frames our hero in a context that makes life easier for us, but not less exciting. Phateon, in the Silver-Gray Manorial house.
The story is not overwhelmed with details about that distant future and you get details along the story. Most detailed analysis are consequence of Phateon own reflections and thoughts.
I find that a very good way to explorer that future and keep the flow. One other aspect of that distant future is that, although it is science fiction, most technologies can be seen as a deep integration and evolution of modern technologies. Nevertheless this does not makes for boring science fiction. The author, in my opinion, only reflects on the infinite permutations possible with all the technologies if only they could be used to our own will without constrains of time and energy.
It's simply amazing and, as I start to read the second book, I'm already guessing I'll like the whole trilogy as much or more as I liked Neuromancer. Oct 27, Mark rated it really liked it. While there is some truth to that assessment, ultimately, it doesn't do justice to the world building In TGA, nor to the compelling mystery that the protagonist uncovers. There are some dense sections that feel more like a Platonic dialogue than a sci-fi novel, but to me this reflects a desire to embrace a classic sci-fi ethos: one where a speculative setting is used to examine the common questions of mankind.
I would encourage readers to tough it out through the more eye-crossing deliberations, as they really are key to exploring the underlying themes of identity, social consciousness, and the wisdom or folly of self-reliance.
The author is obviously an Anglophile and well-read, and, while some of the references or homages teeter on the edge of eye-roll-inducing, they are easily forgiven in a story about a world where one's dreams can be quite literally one's reality.
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A Nebula award finalist for the fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos , he was called "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" by Publishers Weekly after publication of his debut novel, The Golden Age.
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