num_pages: 407
description: The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. Is he indeed an exile from himself? He can't resist investigating, even though to do so could mean the loss of his inheritance, his very place in society. His quest must be to regain his true identity and fulfill the destiny he chose for himself.The Golden Age is just the beginning of Phaethon's story, which will continue in The Phoenix Exultant, forthcoming from Tor.
language: English
title: The Golden Age
titlecomplete: The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
genres: Singularity, Space, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Philosophy, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 3256
series: L'Âge d'or, The Golden Oecumene
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
publisher: Tor Books