van Vogt, yet uniquely itself, The Golden Age presents a complex and thoroughly imagined future that will delight science fiction fans. Now he must find out what it is-and who he is.Ī novel influenced by Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and A.E. He has committed the one act forbidden in his utopian universe. Like his mythical namesake, Phaethon has flown too high and been cast down. When he attempts to regain his lost memories, the whole society of the Golden Oecumene opposes him. A trusting son of this future, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, discovers the rulers of the solar system have erased entire centuries from his mind. In the far future, humans have become as gods: immortal, almost omnipotent, able to create new suns and resculpt body and mind. The Golden Age is the most ambitious and impressive science fiction novel since China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The Golden Age is just the beginning of Phaethon’s story, which will continue in The Phoenix Exultant, forthcoming from Tor. His quest must be to regain his true identity and fulfill the destiny he chose for himself. Is he indeed an exile from himself? He can’t resist investigating, even though to do so could mean the loss of his inheritance, his very place in society. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans.
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