Golden Age (novel)
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Golden Age was a novel by Lawrence Burton published in late 2020. It was written contemporaneously with Against Nature and presented by Burton as "both a pendant and a reaction to the same".
However, it is not a direct sequel or tie-in to Against Nature, instead describing unrelated events running parallel to those of Against Nature and only barely crossing paths on the fringes of either novel. For example, Golden Age prominently featured the inhabitants of Ganda Mnemma, a planet introduced as part of the background worldbuilding of Against Nature, but which played only a minor part in the actual plot thereof.
Publisher's summary
Written contemporaneous with Against Nature, Golden Age is both a pendant and a reaction to the same but not a sequel, and definitely not a "tie-in". Composed by hurling lawn darts at a map of the future in accordance with numerous compositional techniques first developed by A.E. van Vogt, Golden Age follows persons from 15th century Mexico, 21st century Texas, the planet Ganda Mnemma, and wherever gnomes come from - first to Jim's diner, San Antonio, and then the tunnels which run beneath the universe connecting unrelated worlds for no adequately explained reason. Various unusual encounters occur along the way, with a fatal and horrendously smelly one right at the end, and you can read about them all in this powerful new addition to the canon of blue collar science-fiction.
Plot
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Characters
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Notes
- According to Lawrence Burton, this novel contained references, among others, to his own short stories in the 2010 anthology, The Great Divide. The premise of The Great Divide was, quoted from its official summary, "What if those Space Gods we were all supposedly waiting for had turned out to be so far in advance of even our wildest technological expectations that they found a way to wipe themselves out so completely as to leave virtually no trace of their ever having existed?". The retroactive porting over of this anthology into the DWU's continuity has evident implications regarding the development of the War in Heaven as Burton pictured it.
- Burton noted that he wrote the books in daily 800-hundred-words increment, in accordance with principles set down by A. E. van Vogt.[1]
Continuity
- Aliens from Ganda Mnemma appear. (PROSE: Against Nature)
