From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 22:40:46 MDT
I haven't read it, but it sounds tasty:
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue259/books2.html
The Golden Age
By John C. Wright
Tor Hardcover, April 2002 304 pages
MSRP: $24.95 ISBN: 0-312-84870-6
Paul Di Filippo says:
>this book gets high marks
> for its wealth of intriguing ideas (at least
> two per page, many of which would
> spark entire trilogies) and its brave
> attempt to build a suspenseful novel on
> such philosophical questions as the
> nature of identity and consciousness,
> without resorting to cheap melodrama.
> Wright's dauntless presentation of a
> world that obeys Clarke's Third
> Law--"Any sufficiently advanced
> technology is indistinguishable from
> magic"--sometimes veers into obscurity,
> but it's certainly never boring.
>
> If Olaf Stapledon had grown up
> reading Marvel Comics and
> watching The Matrix, he might
> have written The Golden Age.
Damien Broderick
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