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The Golden Age unfolds a thousand years after humanity achieved High Transcendence, turning the solar system into an interplanetary utopia where immortality and terraforming rule. Phaethon, heir to Radamanthus House, is challenged when an old man and a Neptunian inform he is an impostor and that his memories have been removed by a supposedly honor‑bound government. Journeying through the transformed landscapes—Jupiter now a second sun, terraformed Mars and Venus, and intelligent machines—Phaethon seeks to recover lost memories and uncover the crime that earned him pre‑emptive punishment, all while questioning the very foundations of his society.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: John C. Wright
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