Count to Infinity: Book Six of the Eschaton Sequence (The Eschaton Sequence, 6)

by John C. Wright

Count to the Eschaton (6)

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"The alien monstrosities of Ain at long last are revealed, their hidden past laid bare, along with the reason for their brutal treatment of Man and all the species seeded throughout the galaxy. And they have still one more secret that could upend everything Montrose has fought for and lived so long to achieve"--Provided by publisher.

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Title: Count to Infinity
Series: Count to the Eschaton Sequence #6
Author: John Wright
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 321
Format: Digital Edition

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Montrose survives for another 18+ billion years and he and Rania see the Universe become perfect through outside influence.

The End of the Series. THANK GOODNESS!!!!

My Thoughts:

This book went from a very few really cool sequences to me skimming 10+ pages at a time as the author whacks off to show more his own words. If philosophy wrapped in a hard sf container is your thing, this might be for you.

Wright is a Roman Catholic and that shows through so strongly here. In many ways, his theistic evolutionist outlook and how he reconciles that to Scripture takes over this book and I actually enjoyed reading his viewpoint (while being in total disagreement). But that wasn't what this series started out as and it really shouldn't have ended that way.

However, like I mentioned previously, the plot is burdened by stretches of description that bored me to death. Really, this could have been a short story and been more appealing for it. I would have dnf'd this at the 10% mark but I wanted to see how Montrose and Rania finally get together and since that didn't happen until over the half way mark, I figured “in for a penny, in for a pound” and finished it.

However, I have NEVER skimmed so much of a book as I did here. I deliberately skipped huge swathes until I saw key words that were action words. Sadly, they were few and far between. While book 1 intrigued me greatly, each successive book got progressively more descriptive, less action'y and more boring. I'm going to have to think long and hard about if I want to try any of his other series.

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John C. Wright, an attorney turned SF and fantasy writer, lives in Centreville, Virginia

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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PS3623 .R54 .C69Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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