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The year is 10,515 AD. The Hyades Armada, traveling at near lightspeed, will reach Earth in just four centuries to assess humanity’s value as slaves. For the last 8,000 years, two opposing factions have labored to meet the alien threat in very different ways.
One of them is Ximen del Azarchel, immortal leader of the mutineers from the starship Hermetic and self-appointed Master of the World, who has allowed his followers to tamper continuously with the evolutionary destiny of Man, creating one bizarre race after another in an apparent search for a species the Hyades will find worthy of conquest.
The other is Menelaus Montrose, the posthuman Judge of Ages, whose cryonic Tombs beneath the surface of Earth have preserved survivors from each epoch created by the Hermeticists. Montrose intends to thwart the alien invaders any way he can, and to remain alive long enough to be reunited with his bride Rania, who is on a seventy-millennia journey to confront the Hyades’ masters, tens of thousands of light-years away.
Now, with the countdown to the Hyades’ arrival nearing its end, del Azarchel and Montrose square off for what is to be their final showdown for the fate of Earth, a battle of gunfire and cliometric calculus; powered armor and posthuman intelligence.
Judge of Ages is the wildly inventive third volume in a series exploring future history and human evolution from John C. Wright.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
ASIN : B00F8FG7PE
Publisher : Tor Books (February 11, 2014)
Publication date : February 11, 2014
Language : English
File size : 4584 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 386 pages
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Customers find the plot intricate and complex, covering a wide timescale. They describe the book as entertaining and worthwhile. Readers praise the imagination and visionary ideas. The series quality is praised as good and better than its predecessors. Character development is praised as memorable and unique. However, opinions differ on the writing style – some find it good and accessible, while others find it hard to follow or wordy.
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