Instead, I'll say that the novel came perilously close to overloading my capacity for wonder, burning out all my 'gosh' circuits-and I¹ve been reading science fiction assiduously since 1954. Wright " set forth with such effortless intelligence and confident verisimilitude that the author might be a denizen of the remote future, reporting back to us in the distant past." - Kirkus Reviews, "It's a pity the word 'awesome' has been misused to the point of meaninglessness: it would once have been an ideal description of Count To A Trillion. Ultimately this is about human survival and potential, the future of mankind across a trillion star systems., "An exciting voice, adding richness to hard science fiction." -David Brin on John C. The hero, Montrose, is caught in the crosshairs of deadly, highly unusual foes-and his fate could very well determine the fate of everyone on Earth. John Wright's novel is bursting with ideas, blending mythology, machine and human evolution, mathematics, space travel, and much more. Count to a Trillion pokes grand fun of humanity and post-humanity alike., This is much more than a space opera, and fills your mind with intriguing, startling possibilities.
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.Īn awe-inspiring book, brave and full of wonder. So Montrose does the unthinkable: he injects himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. Known as the Monument, the artifact is inscribed with data so complex, only a posthuman mind can decipher it.
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.
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. 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.
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