Quick Literary Note

Well, there's a lot that I SHOULD cover, but what finally motivated me to end my long blog silence was some books that I read this week. They're by John C. Wright and I've noticed them in the book store several times. You could say I've been circling them for awhile. Anyway, I finally bought them when Laurie and I went to the used book store and there they were.

The titles are thus:

The Golden Age

The Phoenix Exultant

The Golden Transcendence

So, they're set in the far future and the blurbs in the front compare them to Gene Wolfe, which is fair, but misleading as Gene Wolfe packs so much into every line that you really have to reread them mulitiple times to figure out the full meaning and these books are simpler and more straightforward. At least in so far as the author essentially tells you what's going on without you having to work out much on your own, which Gene Wolfe doesn't always do. Side note to Alex, they're also compared to Neuromancer.

The first book opens during the Masquerade, which the book explains is a year-long celebration leading up to the Transcendence, a once-a-millennium event that will greatly influence what the next thousand years will be until the next Transcendence. The main character slips away from a dull party he's supposed to be hosting and has an encounter that begins a cascade effect. Basically he begins to realize that many of his memories are missing and he begins a quest to discover the meaning of his life that someone (or multiple someones) don't want him to know. And things go from there. I really, really recommend these books. Definitely check them out if you're at all partial to sci-fi in general, and future history in particular.
Okay, hopefully more to follow in days to come.

Big Aristotle, out.