The Eschaton Sequence

The Eschaton Sequence is a Hard Science Fiction/Space Opera series by John C. Wright.

As of December 2019, the books in the series include:


 * Count to a Trillion
 * The Hermetic Millennia
 * ''The Judge of Ages
 * The Architect of Aeons
 * The Vindication of Man
 * Count to Infinity

MOD NOTE: These tropes most likely apply solely to Count to a Trillion, the first book in the series, as it was the only one published when this page was originally written for TV Tropes (and it wasn't updated before the fork). They should be moved to a page for that book, leaving behind only those tropes which apply to the series as a whole.
 * Abdicate the Throne: A theoretical solution to their problems, at one point.
 * Above Good and Evil: We don't have to teach post humans to be good while we make them.
 * Abusive Precursors: The aliens have yet to show up, but have made their intentions clear.
 * Badass Spaniard
 * Beauty Equals Goodness: Menelaus watches this trope in act. He doesn't approve.
 * The Captain: Princess Rania also commands the world's only (functioning) starship.
 * The Chains of Commanding: The princess is deeply involved in her people's welfare.
 * Cold Sleep, Cold Future
 * Cliff Hanger: The ending of Count to a Trillion
 * Crap Saccharine World
 * Cry Into Chest: Rania possibly invokes this with Menelaus.
 * Dirty Business: Dealing with blighters.
 * Doctor's Orders: Menelaus can talk casually with the effective ruler of Earth. When he must be examined by a doctor, he finds it much harder to assert himself.
 * Dreaming the Truth: Menelaus
 * Driven to Suicide: Captain Grimaldi
 * Duel to the Death: Menelaus's occupation, as junior member of a law firm.
 * Due to the Dead: Menelaus's only objection to the absence of religion.
 * Ermine Cape Effect
 * Evolutionary Levels: Used to soothe the conscience, by some characters.
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water: Menelaus
 * Friend to All Living Things: Prince Ranier
 * Genre Savvy: Menelaus has read SF. He notices certain lacks.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Blackie
 * The Gunslinger
 * How Many Fingers?: The Medic tries this.
 * Human Popsicle
 * I Gave My Word: Why Menelaus survived.
 * Love Triangle: Blackie, Rania, and Menelaus.
 * Two-Person Love Triangle: Menelaus, Iron Menelaus, and Rania.
 * Loves My Alter Ego: Rania fell in love with Iron Menelaus.
 * Mad Scientist: Menelaus tries a very hypothetical experiment out on himself. The effect is very strange.
 * Meaningful Echo
 * The Medic: Menelaus can argue with the Master of the World, but not the doctor
 * Men Don't Cry: His mother insists on this.
 * The Mutiny
 * Murder by Cremation:.
 * No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Menelaus's Super Serum. He gets called on this by Blackie.
 * One Head Taller: Mentally invoked by Menelaus after Princess Rania's growth spurt: "He hated the fact that the top of her head no longer fit nicely under his chin when they hugged...It seemed obscurely unnatural, as if someone had made a mistake when putting the universe together."
 * People of Hair Color: Blondies
 * Princess Classic
 * The Promise: Menelaus makes one very young.
 * Requisite Royal Regalia
 * Reverse Psychology: One character argues with Menelaus as if he wants him to do the opposite.
 * Royal Blood
 * Servant Race: to be genetically engineered.
 * Show Within a Show: The Asymptote, an animated work viewed by the main character which seems to kick everything off.
 * Slave Race: The aliens' plans for us.
 * Sophisticated As Hell: Menelaus swings between "aw shucks" Texanisms and ultrafluent Lawyerese or Antiquated Linguistics.
 * Spring Is Late: Years late.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Super Serum / Psycho Serum
 * Tap on the Head: Takes Menelaus out, old style.
 * Time Abyss: To quote the author, the story will be followed to "the year Oh-My-Gosh-That's-A-Lot-Of-Zeroes".
 * Title Drop
 * Truly Single Parent: The princess has only a father, though he was not the one to make her.
 * Uh-Oh Eyes
 * Visual Novel: The Asymptote seems to be this.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: And, indeed, your own electronic copy.
 * You Are Number Six: Crewman Fifty-one.