John C Wright’s Hugo and Nebula Award Nominated story, The Golden Age is a science fiction quest set 10,000 years in the future. Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus are terraformed, humanity is immortal, and intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms cohabit humankind. In this space opera epic, the protagonist, Phaethon is confronted by an old man claiming he is an imposter and a Neptunian who tells him that his memory has been erased and stored by the government. He then sets to recover his memory and his true identity.