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The Hermetic Millennia (2012)

by John C. Wright(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

076532928X (ISBN13: 9780765329288)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

series

Count to the Eschaton Sequence

review 1: This is an in-between book, make no mistake. It's only part of the story arc, and so there is no resolution for the hero at the end. What's here, though, is highly entertaining-- a framing story set 8,000 years from now delving into the history of the various artificial races of man and their interaction with a "shadowy" figure known as the Judge of Ages who appears from time to time to correct history. It reminded me of Last and First Men, but with characters.
review 2: This is book two in the "Count to the Eschaton" series.The start of it is rather jarring in connection to the first book "Count to a Trillion" where the duel between Menelaus Montrose and "Darkie" ends in a bit of cliffhanger and that this book picks up thousands of years in the future. Montro... morese has been frozen and awakes periodically during the various millennia in preparation to the face off with the monument makers and the return of his wife.This book reminds me to some extent of Olaf Stapledon's works especially "Last and First Men" a history of the human race into the far future. I read Stapledon's works based on John C. Wrights recommendation and they are quite interesting and quite an undertaking but also fall a bit flat in regards to characters. In this book the shipmates from the starship "Hermetic " are engaged in cultural and bio engineering of mankind where each crew member employs his utopian dreams on a millennium. It is a massive chess game between Montrose and his former crew members as Montrose works to set right what he can.While it took me a bit to get into this book, once I did I was totally in the story. Wright always has a lot of mythic elements introduced into both his SF and Fantasy and this is also true of this book. Though the myths introduced are myths translated between the different millenniums which all have some element of Montrose and the other crew members. The story involves members of these various generations interacting after having been awoken by tomb raiders and imprisoned and interviewed for information.Like the first book this one ends on another cliffhanger where things are not going as expected. I eagerly await the next book in the series as this is just great space opera with some interesting elements and I just so love the character of Montrose. less

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