- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; New edition edition (25 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765349086
- ISBN-13: 978-0765349088
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 577,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"John Wright is a stunning new talent. His vivid worlds are filled with wonder and dread, tension and hope. If the future looks like this, our descendants are in for a wild time."
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The conclusion of the grand space opera begun in The Golden Age and The Phoenix Exultant is a story in the tradition of Jack Vance and Roger Zelanzy (with a touch of Cordwainer Smith). It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the verve of Science Fiction's golden age writers. Violating the sanctions against him, Phaeton has travelled across the solar system to recover both his memory and the marvellous Phoenix Exultant, the first true star ship. Should the minds of Earth break out of the safe confines of the solar system and reach for the stars? So Phaeton argues at his trial, but a new enemy would deny them either choice, unless he can stop them.
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I read a lot of sci fi and this series was the best I've read in years and years. I look for what you could call the "wow" factor. That moment when you look up from the book with a look of wonder on your face. In a word, "mindblowing".
Check out his "everness" books as well. Reminscient of Tim Powers - very very good.
Check out his "everness" books as well. Reminscient of Tim Powers - very very good.
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I was given this book by a friend who raved about it, but actually reading this turned into such a chore. The man writes like a total Ayn Rand fanboy, and, sorry, but a lot of his conservatism, homophobia and other distasteful attitudes completely spoiled any pleasure I might have gotten from the book. This one went into the recycled paper box, immediately.
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John Wright has meticulously designed the technologies and societies in the series of books ending with The Golden Transcendence and they seem workable and reasonable in their context. Yet the books leave me cold - the characters are flat and I feel no empathy towards them, except for the few times Daphne Tercius [sic] gets the chance to put in a few words sideways, she has the irony to take down the puffed-up male protagonists, but in the end she is also reduced to just a scantily-clad, high-heeled female admirer of the mighty Phaethon, engineer and capitalist entrepreneur par excellence. Laurie Anderson once hoped that there would be at least economic equality between men and women by 3888, but it seems that in Wright's future many thousands of years in the future, Big Important Jobs are strictly reserved for Real Men powered by Mighty Drives to Change The Future of the Universe, while women are only allowed to work as artists, mothers and sex objects.
When Phaethon in the second book (The Phoenix Exultant) is exiled and turned to a pauper, there would have been a chance for some kind of reflection on the society he lives in, but no, the Poor People really deserve their lot, though they can (in some instances) be improved in a day or two by the imposition of discipline, hard work and sound capitalistic principles. Little Orphan Annie contained the same level of social commentary. The stinging comments by Daphne would seem to hint that there could be some deep irony intended by the author, but it is not born out by the rest of the book, it is as if they were written by someone else.
The time scale is also strangely compressed for such a long-lived and far-planning society, Wright speaks about messages taking hours, days and months to move between outlying nodes of the Solar system, yet events move as if everyone could communicate instantly and all the events of the three books apparently take place within a few weeks at the outmost.
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