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Count to a Trillion - John C. Wright
Count to a Trillion
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Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius—and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to... show more
Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius—and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to take its place among the stars.  The chance to help usher in that future comes when Montrose is recruited for a manned interstellar mission to investigate an artifact of alien origin. Known as the Monument, the artifact is inscribed with data so complex, only a posthuman mind can decipher it. So Montrose does the unthinkable: he injects himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. It drives him mad.Nearly two centuries later, his sanity restored, Montrose is awakened from cryo-suspension with no memory of his posthuman actions, to find Earth transformed in strange and disturbing ways, and learns that the Monument still carries a secret he must decode—one that will define humanity’s true future in the universe.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780765329271 (0765329271)
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 364
Edition language: English
Series: Count to the Eschaton Sequence (#1)
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spocksbro
spocksbro rated it
I tried to read The Golden Age several years ago and remember that I couldn’t finish it. As I recall, the writing was florid and overblown, and it was a chore to read. While the style here is still florid, it worked for me this time (and I may go back to The Golden Age to see if my opinion of that h...
Tannat
Tannat rated it
2.0 Count to a Trillion
Interesting and flawed.One solution to the question of what use we could possibly be to a horribly advanced alien race: we will make ourselves useful to compensate them for the cost of conquering us. There isn't really an else. That's not really what this book is about, but it's what I'm taking aw...
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1.0 Count to a Trillion
Interesting book. Alas, but for the horrible dialogue, flat characters, and lugubrious expository bits, it would've been enjoyable.
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Bryan Thomas Schmidt rated it
3.0 Count to a Trillion
I got to page 240 and gave up. Make no mistake, this is hard SF and while I'm sure John C. Wright is brilliant, I found it mostly incomprehensible much of the time. It did get to the story and characters after about 100 pages but then it was a lot of talking and little action and so 140 pages later,...
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