The Golden Transcendence: or The Last of the Masquerade (The Golden Age Book 3)

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Beginning with The Golden Age continuing with The Phoenix Exultant and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. van Vogt and Roger Zelazny with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super-science a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SFs golden age writers in the suspenseful and passionate tale of a lone rebel unhappy in utopia. The end of the Millennium is imminent when all minds human posthuman cybernetic sophotechnic will be temporarily merged into one solar-system-spanning supermind called the Transcendence. This is not only the fulfillment of a thousand years of dreams it is a day of doom when the universal mind will pass judgment on all the races of humanity and transhumanity. The mighty ship Phoenix Exultant is at last in the hands of her master; Phaethon the Exile is at her helm. But the terrible truth has been revealed: he is being hunted by the agents from a long-lost dead star the eerie and deadly Lords of the Silent Oecumene whose super-technology plumbs depths even the all-knowing Earthmind cannot fathom. Humanity will be helpless during the Golden Transcendence. Phaethons enemies plan to use the opportunity to destroy the population of the Inner System man and machine alike. To do this they must take control of Phaethons beloved starship and turn her unparalleled power to warlike uses. Phaethons memories are incomplete - but he knows a spy for the Silent Ones is already aboard. And when the all-encompassing Mind of the Golden Transcendence wakes - who will it condemn? Which future will it chose? Are Phaethons dreams of star-flight about to revolutionize the Golden Age into an age even more glorious than gold or will they kindle the first open war fought across the immensity of interstellar space?