Count to a Trillion

Name: Count to a Trillion
Rating: 3.954545497894287 (22 reviews)

John C. Wright

2011년 12월 · The Eschaton Sequence 1권 · Macmillan

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A brilliant gunslinger leaves a decimated Earth to pursue the promise of alien intelligence in this “highly impressive” sci-fi debut (Kirkus Reviews).

Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius—and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to take its place among the stars.

The chance to help usher in that future comes when Montrose is recruited for a manned interstellar mission to investigate an artifact of alien origin. Known as the Monument, the artifact is inscribed with data so complex, only a posthuman mind can decipher it. So Montrose injects himself with a dangerous drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect. It has the desired effect . . . but also drives him mad.

Nearly two centuries later, his sanity restored, Montrose is awakened from cryo-suspension with no memory of his posthuman actions, to find Earth transformed in strange and disturbing ways, and learns that the Monument still carries a secret he must decode—one that will define humanity’s true destiny.