# Wright's The Golden Age *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 03 Apr 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *03 Apr 2002, 08:47* Just to repeat an earlier recommendation, which I can now doubly back up: John C. Wright's THE GOLDEN AGE: A ROMANCE OF THE FAR FUTURE, just out from Tor, is a dazzling masterpiece in the Vance/Wolfe vein, with a lot of subtle touches AND a huge eloquence. First in a series, but that just guarantees further wonders... --Nick Gevers. --- ### Adam Stephanides *28 Apr 2002, 15:42 · follows Nicholas Gevers* > on 4/3/02 2:47 AM, Nicholas Gevers at vermoulian at yahoo.com wrote: > Just to repeat an earlier recommendation, which I can > now doubly back up: John C. Wright's THE GOLDEN AGE: A > ROMANCE OF THE FAR FUTURE, just out from Tor, is a > dazzling masterpiece in the Vance/Wolfe vein, with a > lot of subtle touches AND a huge eloquence. First in a > series, but that just guarantees further wonders... I got around to reading this. It's a good read, though hardly profound, but didn't strike me as particularly Wolfean. If I had to describe it in that manner, I'd call it a cross between Vance, Iain M. Banks, and perhaps van Vogt (perhaps, because I've read very little van Vogt, and that long ago). --Adam ---