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The Judge of Ages (Count to a Trillion)

por John C. Wright

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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"--… (mais)
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Loving this series, can't wait to start the next one! ( )
  levlazarev | Oct 18, 2023 |
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Title: The Judge of Ages
Series: Count to the Eschaton Sequence #3
Author: John Wright
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: SFF
Pages: 381
Format: Kindle Digital edition



Synopsis: Spoiler

Picking up right where Book 2 left off, The Judge of Ages shows the final confrontation between Montrose and Del Exarchel and his flesh and blood counterpart. Of course, nothing is still as it seems,not even with Del Exarchel's bombshell's. Humanity 2.0 has arisen and they don't like the post humans (Montrose and Del Exarchel) mucking around with them.

Ends with the 2 archenemies becoming frenemies and being exiled from Earth in a spaceship. And Jupiter is in the process of being turned into a giant brain. Seriously.



My Thoughts

First off, Irresponsible Reader asked for a "meh" book and I have to say, he's getting it in spades with this one.

The only thing saving this from a 2star is the fact that there was a 50page battle in a locked room [it might have been slightly less than 50 pages, but it felt like it and that is a good thing] with about 10 different groups. It was awesome. It was up there with the battles in Neal Asher's book and since I had just read Gridlinked, the comparison was fresh.

Both this and Gridlinked are dealing with Posthumanity and the future. Unfortunately, this book falls into a didactic tone and the characters, mainly Montrose, spend the majority of the time spelling out they outsmarted all the other characters and the results of their smarty-pants'ness. It is all explained with very big math'y words that lapse over into the social engineering side of things as well. If you happen to be an expert in that kind of thing, or enjoy that level of detail, this will probably work for you.

I don't need that level of excruciating detail. I am not posthuman. In fact, most days, without an energy drink, I am barely old fashioned human. It was just boring!

At this point, I will keep reading the series just to see how it ends. But my goodness, shoot me in the head with a nanoencephalitic cocktail if you want me to praise future books. ( )
1 vote BookstoogeLT | Feb 14, 2017 |
The Judge of Ages
Author: John C. Wright
Publisher: Tor
Published In: New York, NY, USA
Date: 2014
Pgs: 380

REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Summary:
The distant future. An alien fleet travels toward Earth from a great distance. This fleet will test humanity for our value as slaves to our new/old alien masters. Mankind is preparing for their arrival. One faction of humans has been playing with their genes in an attempt to create a hybrid race that the oncoming horde will find worthy of conquest instead of extinction. In the eons long wait, they have created quite a few offshoots of Mankind. The Judge stands in opposition to that faction. He seeks a way to beat the Hyades and their far distant Masters. Posthuman vs. powered armor. Bullets and brains. The end of the beginning of the end. History and evolution. Masters and slaves. Will Man or his descendants survive?

Genre:
Adventure
Disaster
End of the World
Fiction
Science fiction

Why this book:
The title caught me. The image on the cover of the city in the clouds.

Favorite Character:
Scipio Montrose. He sounds like a survivor...or a quisling. I haven’t decided yet. But he comes across awesomely.

Soorm. He basically farted and belched an opponent to death.

How could you not love the Judge? He’s an awesome character.

Least Favorite Character:
Ull is thickheaded. As all around him put two and two together, he failed to realize that the object of his quest was before him the whole time.

Character I Most Identified With:
The swirling, science fictioness of the characters, alien is the best word to describe them even though they aren’t aliens and are all actually genetic children of Man, makes them virtually impossible to identify with.

Maybe the Judge...or the Giant, Bashan.

Soorm when he recognizes that Alpha Yuen brought a knife to a gunfight.

The Feel:
Very Grant Morrison-esque. Blue Men. Gray Men. Dog Men. Living Digital Super Whales. Spaceships so big that they are visible in the sky stretching from the sky into the distant heavens causing hurricane force storms as they move their tip through the atmosphere

Favorite Scene:
When Menelaus gets his peek outside through the digital machinations of the Gray Twins and he sees the gigantic ship stretching from way out in space into the atmosphere where it is vacuuming up a future version of Raleigh. And as its tip moves through the atmosphere, it stirs up hurricane forces to swirl around it and in its wake.

The run up to the duel...and the duel. Love the kneel before Zod moment when they are discussing Blackie’s “real” plan.

Pacing:
Breakneck. There’s a lot of headsnap, look at this over here, wow, in this book.

Spastic and jittery.

Mentally exhausting...but awesome.

The story is thick with exposition what with it being largely one big fight in a locked room. It’s a big room, throne room, but still. Just as I start to think too much exposition, something will hit me between the eyes and set off my wow circuits.

The exposition begins to wear as you get around the 220s to 250s. But then, the buildup to the duel kicks in and, just like that, the expository nature slacks off as Menelaus’s mind turns to the duel and the story becomes more about the present than the tremendous past of the Judge and all the various children of Earth and Man.

Plot Holes/Out of Character:
Montrose, the real one, supposedly, finally, gets the drop on the guys who have been tormenting him for the whole first act and instead of going for it ends up recaptured/back under their spell. This was a huge letdown and felt out of character for someone who was supposed to be as on-the-ball as the Judge of Ages is supposed to be.

Hmm Moments:
The Noah’s Ark intelligent zeppelins floating over a blasted hell-like Earth carrying the future geosperma of the entire biosphere of the planet.

“Jesus pissing in Palestine” is a great exclamation.

chronovertigo - the crushing weight of aeons.

I like how all of the Thaws think that they are either still the Currents or going to be the next Ascendants when the dilemma works itself out. Course that sets the stage for the conquest of the Vaults to become a Civil War between all these aeons separated Children of Mankind whether they be cyborg Locusts, Giants, Sylphs, Blue Men, Gray Men, Dog Men, Humans who have uploaded their souls to the Noosphere, Net, Datumsphere, etc.

A locked room mystery where the reader knows the answer but have to follow the breadcrumbs as the invaders and prisoners figure it out. The plan and the plot of the Judge takes its time to boil, but the depth of characterization and the brain spinning speed of the pace make up for the slow boil.

The Earth Brain and The Jupiter Brain.

Why isn’t there a screenplay?
There’s no way that a screenplay would be the same as the story in this book.

Casting call:

Last Page Sound:
I feel cheated...but that’s alright.

Author Assessment:
Brain spinning. I would read other stuff by this author.

Editorial Assessment:
Well done.

Knee Jerk Reaction:
instant classic

Disposition of Book:
Irving Public Library, Irving, TX

Would recommend to:
everyone ( )
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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"--

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