And now "The Phoenix Exultant," a second epic novel of an heroic quest in a far future world of super-science from an important new talent. "The Phoenix Exultant" is a continuation of the story begun in "The Golden Age" and, like it, a grand space opera in the tradition of Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny (with a touch of Cordwainer Smith-style invention). At the conclusion of the first book, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, was left an exile from his life of power and privilege. Now he embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life-forms, to recover his memory, to regain his place in society and to move that society away from stagnation and toward the stars. And most of all Phaethon's quest is to regain ownership of the magnificent starship, the Phoenix Exultant, the most wonderful ship ever built, and to fly her to the stars. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the verve of SF's Golden Age writers "The Phoenix Exultant" is a suitably grand and stirring fulfillment of the promise shown in "The Golden Age" and confirms John C. Wright as a major new talent in the field.
- ISBN10 1429915587
- ISBN13 9781429915588
- Publish Date 1 April 2007 (first published 16 May 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 304
- Language English