Count to a Trillion: The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read, Open EPUB eBook)
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 does the unthinkable: he injects himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. It 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 future in the universe.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
John C. Wright. (2011). Count to a Trillion: The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1. 1 Tor Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)John C. Wright. 2011. Count to a Trillion: The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1. Tor Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)John C. Wright, Count to a Trillion: The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1. Tor Publishing Group, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)John C. Wright. Count to a Trillion: The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1. 1 Tor Publishing Group, 2011.
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Anne Arundel County Public Library | 1 | 1 |
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/961/179/10/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/961/179/10/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781429986373
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B005CRY3Z4
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781429986373
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781429986373
- name: Open EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-open
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780765367457
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: John C. Wright
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Count to a Trillion
- seriesId
- 694270
- dateAdded
- 2015-07-01T17:06:51.617Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=51&titleID=679881
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Maryland's Digital Library (MD)
- id: 831
- sortTitle
- Count to a Trillion Count to the Eschaton Sequence Book 01
- crossRefId
- 679881
- series
- Count to the Eschaton Sequence
- subtitle
- The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1
- id
- 96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479
- starRating
- 2.8
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: CounttoaTrillion_9781429986373_679881
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 669129
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781429986373
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 12/20/2011
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: CounttoaTrillion_679881
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B005CRY3Z4
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 12/20/2011
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: CounttoaTrillion_9781429986373_679881
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781429986373
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 12/20/2011
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: CounttoaTrillion_9781429986373_679881
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 668666
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781429986373
- name: Open EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-open
- onSaleDate: 12/20/2011
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: science fiction fantasy
- value: Science Fiction Space Opera
- value: speculative fiction
- value: hard science fiction
- value: realistic science fiction
- value: hard sci fi
- value: hard scifi
- value: interplanetary travel
- value: epic science fiction
- value: best sci fi books
- value: best science fiction books
- value: books sci fi
- value: books science fiction
- value: science fiction and fantasy books
- value: best science fiction
- value: space opera series
- value: far future science fiction
- value: space opera science fiction
- value: hard science fiction books
- value: hard science fiction series
- value: post apocalyptic science fiction series
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Wright, John C.
- bioText: JOHN C. WRIGHT is an attorney turned SF and fantasy writer. He has published short fiction in Asimov's SF and elsewhere, and wrote the Chronicles of Chaos, The Golden Age, and The War of Dreaming series. His novel Orphans of Chaos was a finalist for the Nebula Award in 2005.
- name: John C. Wright
- imprint
- Tor Books
- publishDate
- 2011-12-20T00:00:00-05:00
- edition
- 1
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Count to a Trillion
- fullDescription
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 does the unthinkable: he injects himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. It 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 future in the universe.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.- seriesId
- 694270
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: Spider Robinson, author of Very Hard Choices
- content:
"It's a pity the word 'awesome' has been misused to the point of meaninglessness: it would once have been an ideal description of Count To A Trillion. Instead, I'll say that the novel came perilously close to overloading my capacity for wonder, burning out all my 'gosh' circuits--and I've been reading science fiction assiduously since 1954. Mr. Wright is a major figure in the recent renaissance of space opera, the kind of writer who is equally at home with hard science and poetry, the kind you read slowly and carefully, and very happily. Count to a trillion, as slow as you like: you'll be done long before you forget this story, or its Texan gunfighter hero, a child-abuse survivor yearning with all his heart for a cartoon future of hope called The Asymptote."
- premium: False
- source: Kirkus
- content: "Spectacularly clever... in weaving together cutting edge speculation along the outer fringes of science. Highly impressive."
- premium: False
- source: Michael Flynn
- content: "R.A.Lafferty meets A.E.VanVogt in a cakewalk through a future full of anti-matter, alien artifacts, transhumans, an Iron Ghost, a Texas gunfighter, and a Space Princess. Well worth the price of admission."
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
October 3, 2011
Decades after the world has descended into anarchy, Menelaus Montrose dreams of making it better. He jumps at the chance to escape backward Texas, now an independent country, to participate in a daring expedition to recover antimatter from an alien relic in a nearby stellar system. Montrose���s misguided self-experimentation leaves him comatose for years; when he regains consciousness, he learns his surviving crewmates have used the antimatter to conquer and reshape Earth. They have also left the planet obligated to the alien hierarchy responsible for the antimatter���s creation. Wright (Orphans of Chaos) is at his best when he abandons his trite characters and cardboard terrestrial setting to contemplate the Stapledonian implications of a government able to function across the vast expanses of space and time, appealing to readers interested in glimpses of the unfathomable immensities of our universe.
- popularity
- 30
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BaQAAAOQCAAA1L/products/96117910-e25f-4d38-a308-ad1044d9c479/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 96117910-e25f-4d38-a308-ad1044d9c479
- starRating
- 2.8
- readingOrder
- 1
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/961/179/10/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/961/179/10/{96117910-E25F-4D38-A308-AD1044D9C479}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Science Fiction
- publishDateText
- 12/20/2011
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780765367457
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
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 does the unthinkable: he injects himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. It 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...- sortTitle
- Count to a Trillion The Eschaton Sequence Series Book 01
- crossRefId
- 679881
- series
- Count to the Eschaton Sequence
- subtitle
- The Eschaton Sequence Series, Book 1
- publisher
- Tor Publishing Group
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC028000
- description: Fiction / Science Fiction / General