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Title: The Phoenix Exultant: or, Dispossessed in Utopia by John C. Wright ISBN: 0-7653-0432-5 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 16 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great read!
Comment: A great read!
I truly enjoyed reading this It's a rarity these days to find an author capable of such good storytelling. The story is well written and very engaging, and despite the fact that it lost some momentum in the middle, I found myself eagerly turning pages to find out what would happen next. All in all, though this is not quite a perfect novel, it comes close.
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid read - more focused than the first
Comment: I was a huge fan of the first book, Golden Age and eagerly waited the arrival of The Phoenix Exultant. The biggest disappointment in this book is that you find out in the front matter, we get to wait for yet another book to see how this amazing story ends.
The first book has a tendency to knock people over with Wright's fire hose introduction to the world of the far future. The first few chapters of Golden Age bounced around between Phaethon, the Peers and other things happening at the festival leading up to the millennial transcendence.
This book launches out of the gate with our hero now the penultimate outcast, and by and large the story focuses solely on him. Unlike the first book that spent time laying out the landscape of a world where most of the human race has been computationally augmented along one of several stereotypes, The Phoenix Exultant focuses on how a man who has lived in this digitally enhanced world for thousands of years now finds ways to do without. In the end Phaethon emerges a stronger, more focused man, more intent than ever that his vision and future are in his hands alone, and that no power on earth (or in the Galaxy really) can stop him from achieving his dreams.
Through this tale of struggle and survival, Wright weaves in several side trips that delve into this fascinating future world: What role does the military play? What happens at the "bottom" of the food chain? Surely with nearly unlimited power and wealth, everyone is happy? Don't count on it! In this second installment the enemies that hunt Phaethon are closer and more real than ever, the powerful forces of the status quo more intent to keep him down than ever before. Through it all one person is willing to give up everything this nearly magical world has to offer at a chance to save him from exile and certain death.
The Phoenix Exultant is a wonderful book full of imagination and invention. The Golden Age series is shaping up to be one of the pivotal works of Science Fiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating science, interesting hero
Comment: After the government exiles him, ordering that anyone who even talks to him also be exiled, Phaethon descends into the world of hopeless losers. He's equipped with sophisticated nanotechnology--but fears any contact with the global communications and computer system that will, he is certain, announce his whereabouts to the enemies that he knows are invading our system--enemies that only he believes exist. Somehow, Phaethon must overcome the limitations put on him by both his own society and these mysterious invaders, if he is to reclaim his space ship--the Phoenix Exultant which he built to travel to the stars.
Author John C. Wright does a wonderful job building a convincing world of the future. Nanotechnology is everywhere, artificial intelligences are protected by law, and human/computer society has experimented with group minds. In many ways, it is a golden age, but an age with its limitations--and Wright's Phaethon is the kind of man who is destined to struggle against these limitations.
THE PHOENIX EXULTANT combined interesting extrapolation with solid adventure. A dynamite combination, for sure. Unfortunately, the writing, especially the dialogue, is sometimes clunky to the point where characters seem to be lecturing one another. Phaethon's heavy-handed attempts to reform the losers of the water realm where he is sent may be well-meaning, but make him appear condescending and annoying rather than heroic and caring. Imperfections aside, THE PHOENIX EXULTANT is a fascinating read and worth the occasionally heavy language.
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Title: The Golden Age by John C. Wright ISBN: 0812579844 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Golden Transcendence : Or, The Last of the Masquerade by John C. Wright ISBN: 0765307561 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Ilium by Dan Simmons ISBN: 0380978938 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ISBN: 0345457684 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Risen Empire: Book One of Succession by Scott Westerfeld ISBN: 0765305550 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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