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* [[Arc Words]]: "Deeds of renown without peer."
* [[Arc Words]]: "Deeds of renown without peer."
* [[As Long As 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.
* [[As Long As 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]]
* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]
* [[Bloody Murder]]: {{spoiler|Atkins' blood contains nanite poisons.}}
* [[Bloody Murder]]: {{spoiler|Atkins' blood contains nanite poisons.}}
* [[Broken Aesop]]: An in-universe example with Wheel-of-Life's (?) ecoperformance criticizing Phaethon. She imagines that [[Failure Is the Only Option|overcompetition between linked systems will lead to mass extinction]], and so it does...as long as she is directly controling the action. After the performance is over and the grove has time to recover, the trees re-adapt to one another and cooperate without any outside interference.
* [[Broken Aesop]]: An in-universe example with Wheel-of-Life's (?) ecoperformance criticizing Phaethon. She imagines that [[Failure Is the Only Option|overcompetition between linked systems will lead to mass extinction]], and so it does...as long as she is directly controling the action. After the performance is over and the grove has time to recover, the trees re-adapt to one another and cooperate without any outside interference.
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* [[Canine Companion]]
* [[Canine Companion]]
* [[Children Are Innocent]]
* [[Children Are Innocent]]
* [[Commedia Dell Arte]]
* [[Commedia Dell'Arte]]
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]
* {{spoiler|[[Cool Starship]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Cool Starship]]}}
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* [[Empathic Environment]]: "The Dreaming."
* [[Empathic Environment]]: "The Dreaming."
* [[Empathic Weapon]]
* [[Empathic Weapon]]
* [[Everythings Better With Penguins]]: Rhadamanthus ''really'' likes to dress up as a penguin.
* [[Everything's Better With Penguins]]: Rhadamanthus ''really'' likes to dress up as a penguin.
* [[Face Death With Dignity]]: {{spoiler|Helion. Repeatedly.}}
* [[Face Death With Dignity]]: {{spoiler|Helion. Repeatedly.}}
** Also {{spoiler|Socrates at the end.}}
** Also {{spoiler|Socrates at the end.}}
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* [[I Gave My Word]]
* [[I Gave My Word]]
* [[Immortality]]: Noumenal recording.
* [[Immortality]]: Noumenal recording.
* [[Instant AI Just Add Water]]
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]
* [[It Was a Gift]]
* [[It Was a Gift]]
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Atkins has a habit of carrying one...despite having the templates for ''every weapon ever'' stored in his armor.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Atkins has a habit of carrying one...despite having the templates for ''every weapon ever'' stored in his armor.
* [[Laser Guided Amnesia]]: On ''the entire planet.''
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: On ''the entire planet.''
* [[Last Request]]
* [[Last Request]]
* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]
* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]
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* [[Men Don't Cry]]
* [[Men Don't Cry]]
* [[Might Makes Right]]
* [[Might Makes Right]]
* [[Mike Nelson Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Phaethon's}} birth; also why most of the Oecumene doesn't trust him around high-powered spaceships or things of a weaponlike nature.
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Phaethon's}} birth; also why most of the Oecumene doesn't trust him around high-powered spaceships or things of a weaponlike nature.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Helion's last wife left him and committed suicide, not necessarily in that order.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Helion's last wife left him and committed suicide, not necessarily in that order.
** It is, however, hinted that she may have made something of any appearance.
** It is, however, hinted that she may have made something of any appearance.
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* [[Morality Chip]]
* [[Morality Chip]]
* [[Motive Rant]]: {{spoiler|Ungannis aka Unmoiqhotep. After it ends, she's rather unhappy to find the society she'd been scheming to destroy is completely unsympathetic, and worse, uninterested.}}
* [[Motive Rant]]: {{spoiler|Ungannis aka Unmoiqhotep. After it ends, she's rather unhappy to find the society she'd been scheming to destroy is completely unsympathetic, and worse, uninterested.}}
* [[My God What Have I Done]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]
* [[Never My Fault]]
* [[Never My Fault]]
* [[No Place for Me There]]: This is the attitude of Marshal-General Atkins [[Punny Name|Vingt-et-un,]] the last soldier of the Golden Oecumene.
* [[No Place for Me There]]: This is the attitude of Marshal-General Atkins [[Punny Name|Vingt-et-un,]] the last soldier of the Golden Oecumene.
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* [[Victorian Britain]]: The Silver Gray house deliberately models itself on this era -- chosen because it was the first time that people realized their societies were not laws of nature but had to be built and maintained.
* [[Victorian Britain]]: The Silver Gray house deliberately models itself on this era -- chosen because it was the first time that people realized their societies were not laws of nature but had to be built and maintained.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Most of the Golden Oecomene believes Phaethon is this. Several of them tell him so to his face.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Most of the Golden Oecomene believes Phaethon is this. Several of them tell him so to his face.
* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: Helion to Phaethon for a while.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Helion to Phaethon for a while.
* [[With Due Respect]]
* [[With Due Respect]]
* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]: Atkins. As the entire military force of civilisation, he has a lot of constraints on his behavior.
* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]: Atkins. As the entire military force of civilisation, he has a lot of constraints on his behavior.
* [[Wretched Hive]]
* [[Wretched Hive]]
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Agreeing to the [[Laser Guided Amnesia]] was one, for {{spoiler|Phaethon.}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Agreeing to the [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] was one, for {{spoiler|Phaethon.}}
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]


Revision as of 07:20, 9 January 2014

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 are:

  • The Golden Age
  • The Phoenix Exultant
  • The Golden Transcendence

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