Dimensions
106 x 171 x 32mm
An epic first novel of a quest in a far future world of super science from a new talent.
'The Golden Age' is grand space opera, a large-scale science fiction adventure novel. It is a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers.
Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion, celebrating the thousand year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he first meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, then an alien from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The alien tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself.
Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system. Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus have been terraformed, and humanity has become immortal. Phaethon must search among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned to warrant such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity.
'The Golden Age' is one of the major, ambitious science fiction novels of the year and the international launch of an important new figure in the genre.
