Reddit reviews The Golden Age

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u/Document2 · 4 pointsr/printSF

By John C. Wright: The Golden Age (first in a trilogy) and the upcoming Count to a Trillion (likewise).
By Greg Egan: Permutation City (in its second half) (excerpt), Diaspora (excerpt), Border Guards, Schild's Ladder (excerpt), Riding the Crocodile/Incandescence (excerpt of the latter).
Possibly Iain M. Banks' Culture series; they say you should start with The Player of Games.
Riding the Crocodile and the elsewhere-mentioned Thousandth Night first appeared in the anthology One Million AD.
Relevant TV Tropes pages: Human Subspecies, Time Abyss, Transhuman Aliens.

In response to this comment, Egan's one example of someone who wrote near-future stories in the '90s that remain non-ridiculous.

u/silouan · 3 pointsr/scifi

The Golden Age by John C. Wright, and its two sequels, The Phoenix Exultant: and The Golden Transcendence.

It's not quite what I think you mean by transhumanism, but it's a great posthuman novel. The publisher says:

> The end of the Millennium is imminent, when all minds, human, posthuman, cybernetic, sophotechnic, will be temporarily merged into one solar-system-spanning supermind called the Transcendence. This is not only the fulfillment of a thousand years of dreams, it is a day of doom, when the universal mind will pass judgment on all the races of humanity and transhumanity.

The trilogy is written with style and humor, with a strong dash of the classics, and with an eye toward limits and implications of communication across different levels of computational capacity, mind architecture, and processing speed.

In fact I think I just talked myself into re-reading it :-)

u/PatricioINTP · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

One of my sci-fi favs which is CRUNCHY in its sci-fi is The Golden Age by John Wright. The plot is twisty enough you won’t know where it will head, but the ideas in the book are so constant that many have trouble reading it. Not because it’s bad but rather it’s DENSE. The next two in the trilogy is easier though. Do please read some reviews first.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Golden-Age-Paperback-ebook/dp/B000FA5QJK/