Phaéton, banni de l'Œcumène d'or, condamné à l'ostracisme universel, dépouillé de son armure spatiale, de ses avatars, de sa demeure, a retrouvé la mémoire et son rêve : prendre l'espace à bord de son astronef, le Phénix exultant. Il lui reste l'appui de Daphné, le clone de son épouse, qui l'aime
The Phoenix Exultant
✍ Scribed by John C. Wright
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates;Tor
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
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...
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