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The Golden Age
The Phoenix Exultant
The Golden Transcendence
THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE
Or, The Last of the Masquerade
JOHN C.WRIGHT
NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that
this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the
publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment
for this "stripped book."
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE Copyright ┬й 2003 by John C. Wright
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions
thereof, in any form.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
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ISBN 0-765-34908-6
EAN 978.0765-34908-8
First edition: November 2003
First mass market edition: June 2004
Printed in the United States of America 0987654321
To my beloved wife,
dearer than my soul,
mother of my children
in whom my whole delight is summed
Orville, Wilbur, Justinian
THE SHIP
Personality and memory download in progress. Please hold all thoughts in
abeyance until mental overwrite is complete, or unexpected results may obtain.
Where was he? Who was he?
Information unavailableтАФall neural pathways occupied by emergency noetic
adjustment. Please stand by normal thinking will resume presently.
What the hell was going on? What was wrong with Us memory? He had been
dreaming about burning children as he slept, and the shadow of aircraft
spreading clouds of nano-bacteriological agent across a blasted \
landscape....
This unit has not been instructed to respond to com-mands until the noumenal
redaction palimpsest process is complete. Please hold all questions until the
end: your new persona may be equipped with proper emotional responses to
soothe uncertainties, or memory-information to answer questions of fact. Are
you dissatisfied with your present personality? Select the Abort option to
commit suicide memory-wipe and start again.
He groped his way toward memory, to awareness. Whatever the hell was happening