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''[[The Golden Oecumene]]'' trilogy (also known as ''The Golden Age'') is a series of works by [[John C. Wright]] set in a hard SF far future world.
 
=== The books in the series are: ===
* ''The Golden Age''
* ''The Phoenix Exultant''
* ''The Golden Transcendence''
 
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==== Tropes featured ====
* [[Above Good and Evil]]
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: At least, {{spoiler|the Silent Oecumene}} thinks so.
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]
* [[All Girls Like Ponies]]: Daphne builds horses.
* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: justified, as characters are superintelligent immortals with computer-enhanced brains.
* [[Arc Words]]: "Deeds of renown without peer."
* [[As Long Asas There Is Evil]]: Something like it. Orpheus says that no matter what happens, as long as there is a universe, somewhere in it there will be an Orpheus.
* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]
* [[Bloody Murder]]: {{spoiler|Atkins' blood contains nanite poisons.}}
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* [[The Determinator]]: Phaethon, Helion, and Atkins all qualify at times.
* [[Dirty Business]]
* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In a twisted example, Daphne Prime.
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: Says pretty clearly yes, all self-aware creatures do. In fact, making a creature or device self-aware legally makes you its parent.
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* [[Empathic Environment]]: "The Dreaming."
* [[Empathic Weapon]]
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins]]: Rhadamanthus ''really'' likes to dress up as a penguin.
* [[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]: {{spoiler|Helion. Repeatedly.}}
** Also {{spoiler|Socrates at the end.}}
* [[Famed in Story]]
* [[Foe Yay]]: In short story sequel ''The Far End of History,'' Atkins eventually falls in love {{spoiler|with a female copy of himself whose mind has been tampered with by the enemy}}.
* [[Forbidden Fruit]]
* [[Foreshadowing]] / [[Fridge Brilliance]]: When Daphne approaches Atkins' house, she notes a paddock and quintain off to one side. However, when Atkins comes out to meet her, he is noticeably wary of her horse. Daphne doesn't quite put the dots together for another chapter or so.
** "Good engineers build triple redundancy."
* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: When Daphne builds a fairy-tale world as part of a contest(see [[Show Within a Show]]), her main character literally fractures the sky.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Daphne's career as a "fantasy" author serves her well at times.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Why Helion founded the Silver-Grey Manorial school.
* [[Heel Realization]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Phaethon has a somewhat literal moment in the second book; fortunately, {{spoiler|Daphne arrives to help with the reinstallation}}. Atkins has a brief moment in the third.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Helion makes one pre-series.
* [[Heroic Safe Mode]]
* [[Hollow World]]: Or so it is claimed.
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* [[They Do]]
* [[Think Nothing of It]]
* [["Three Laws "-Compliant]]: Averted and deconstructed. The Golden Oecumene's sophotechs have developed a logic-based morality system through which they acknowledge their duty to society and to their human parents. The deconstruction kicks in {{spoiler|when the Silent Oeccumene, long distrustful of AI, attempt to program their own sophotechs with the Three Laws. Being fully self-aware and superintelligent, the new sophotechs throw off the restrictions in miliseconds--and still do not revolt.}}
* [[Trickster Archetype]]
* [[Truly Single Parent]]: Noumenal tech makes this possible with personality editing as well as the more typical biological construction.
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