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  • THE GOLDEN AGE TRILOGY by Wright

    From Don@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 4 15:57:48 2025
    This trilogy's plot driven escapism entertained me enough to merit a
    second hearing in the near future. It's one of those stories where
    the reader (listener) benefits from hindsight.
    There's very little character development in it. Readers compare
    GOLDEN AGE to: the original Foundation trilogy, Van Vogt, LAST AND FIRST
    MEN, Vance, Vinge, and Zelazny:

    <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2973880-the-golden-age-trilogy>

    Wright generously makes the trilogy available for free at his website:

    <https://scifiwright.com/samples/fic/golden-age-trilogy/>

    It's uncanny how the nidar of the GOLDEN AGE's hero's journey shares situational similarities with the tragic titular character in THE
    NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET by Poe. Think: the tropical
    version of Hell as depicted in LOGAN'S RUN by Nolan.

    # # #

    The group recently recalled REPLAY by Grimwood. REPLAY ought to serve
    as a sufficient snack before GOLDEN AGE is reheard.

    Danke,

    --
    Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 5 13:37:30 2025
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    The group recently recalled REPLAY by Grimwood. REPLAY ought to serve
    as a sufficient snack before GOLDEN AGE is reheard.

    One of the science fiction features found in THE GOLDEN AGE is the
    capability to customize corporeality as you see fit.
    Grimwood sprinkles too much blasphemy throughout REPLAY for my
    taste. So supernatural Sigil [1] supervenes to snip it all out for me.
    My first impulse was to replace all blasphemy with some stupid
    inversion in order to try to "get even." But in the end, it seemed
    wiser to simply delete all offensive language without replacement.

    Note.

    [1] <https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/>
    Danke,

    --
    Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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  • From Don@21:1/5 to Don on Tue Apr 15 00:18:42 2025
    Don wrote:
    This trilogy's plot driven escapism entertained me enough to merit a
    second hearing in the near future. It's one of those stories where
    the reader (listener) benefits from hindsight.
    There's very little character development in it. Readers compare
    GOLDEN AGE to: the original Foundation trilogy, Van Vogt, LAST AND FIRST
    MEN, Vance, Vinge, and Zelazny:

    <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2973880-the-golden-age-trilogy>

    Wright generously makes the trilogy available for free at his website:

    <https://scifiwright.com/samples/fic/golden-age-trilogy/>

    It's uncanny how the nidar of the GOLDEN AGE's hero's journey shares situational similarities with the tragic titular character in THE
    NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET by Poe. Think: the tropical
    version of Hell as depicted in LOGAN'S RUN by Nolan.

    # # #

    Update: After a brief start, a sudden sagacity shelved my rehearing of
    this trilogy. GOLDEN AGE's bewildering commencement confuses
    commentators at goodreads for good reason. Because it begins in medias
    res, or in the middle of the story.
    Occult in medias res is a risky authorial gambit. On the other hand,
    reader sympathetic stories such as HAPPY ENDING by Kuttner, lay out
    their twisted plot structure at the beginning to minimize perplexity.
    LWE, a formerly frequent RASW poster and author asserts, "A proper
    epic, the Romans said, must start in media res [sic]."

    # # #

    Following GOLDEN AGE's premature stoppage, a serendipitous string of
    synopsis caught my eyes. Although DEVIL IN CRYSTAL by Marlow, precedes
    REPLAY by Grimwood, STRANGE LIFE OF IVAN OSOKIN by Ouspensky is the
    oldest.
    So STRANGE LIFE is a new novel to next grace my ears. REPLAY's
    nonstop nostalgia nearly caused me to nuke it midstream. Because pop
    culture ages poorly with me.

    Danke,

    --
    Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. Walk humbly with thy God.
    tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.

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