Hermetic Millenium

The Hermetic Millenium trilogy is a Hard Science Fiction/Space Opera series in progress by John C. Wright.

Books thus far.

 * Count to a Trillion

Tropes featured

 * Abdicate the Throne: A theoretical solution to their problems, at one point.
 * Above Good and Evil: We don't have to teach post humans to be good while we make them.
 * Abusive Precursors: The aliens have yet to show up, but have made their intentions clear.
 * Badass Spaniard
 * Beauty Equals Goodness: Menelaus watches this trope in act. He doesn't approve.
 * The Captain: Princess Rania also commands the world's only (functioning) starship.
 * The Chains of Commanding: The princess is deeply involved in her people's welfare.
 * Cold Sleep, Cold Future
 * Cliff Hanger: The ending of Count to a Trillion
 * Crap Saccharine World
 * Cry Into Chest: Rania possibly invokes this with Menelaus.
 * Dirty Business: Dealing with blighters.
 * Doctor's Orders: Menelaus can talk casually with the effective ruler of Earth. When he must be examined by a doctor, he finds it much harder to assert himself.
 * Dreaming the Truth: Menelaus
 * Driven to Suicide: Captain Grimaldi
 * Duel to the Death: Menelaus's occupation, as junior member of a law firm.
 * Due to the Dead: Menelaus's only objection to the absence of religion.
 * Ermine Cape Effect
 * Evolutionary Levels: Used to soothe the conscience, by some characters.
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water: Menelaus
 * Friend to All Living Things: Prince Ranier
 * Genre Savvy: Menelaus has read SF. He notices certain lacks.
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Blackie
 * The Gunslinger
 * How Many Fingers?: The Medic tries this.
 * Human Popsicle
 * I Gave My Word: Why Menelaus survived.
 * Love Triangle: Blackie, Rania, and Menelaus.
 * Two-Person Love Triangle: Menelaus, Iron Menelaus, and Rania.
 * Loves My Alter Ego: Rania fell in love with Iron Menelaus.
 * Mad Scientist: Menelaus tries a very hypothetical experiment out on himself. The effect is very strange.
 * Meaningful Echo
 * The Medic: Menelaus can argue with the Master of the World, but not the doctor
 * Men Don't Cry: His mother insists on this.
 * The Mutiny
 * Murder by Cremation:.
 * No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Menelaus's Super Serum. He gets called on this by Blackie.
 * One Head Taller: Mentally invoked by Menelaus after Princess Rania's growth spurt: "He hated the fact that the top of her head no longer fit nicely under his chin when they hugged...It seemed obscurely unnatural, as if someone had made a mistake when putting the universe together."
 * People of Hair Color: Blondies
 * Princess Classic
 * The Promise: Menelaus makes one very young.
 * Requisite Royal Regalia
 * Reverse Psychology: One character argues with Menelaus as if he wants him to do the opposite.
 * Royal Blood
 * Servant Race: to be genetically engineered.
 * Shout-Out: Pretty blatant one to Star Trek/Buck Rogers/Babylon 5 in Asymptote; "Blackie" del Azarchel is a homage to Blackie Duquesne from the Skylark series.
 * Slave Race: The aliens' plans for us.
 * Sophisticated As Hell: Menelaus swings between "aw shucks" Texanisms and ultrafluent Lawyerese or Antiquated Linguistics.
 * Spring Is Late: Years late.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Super Serum / Psycho Serum
 * Tap on the Head: Takes Menelaus out, old style.
 * Time Abyss: To quote the author, the story will be followed to "the year Oh-My-Gosh-That's-A-Lot-Of-Zeroes".
 * Title Drop
 * Truly Single Parent: The princess has only a father, though he was not the one to make her.
 * Uh-Oh Eyes
 * Visual Novel: Asymptote seems to be this.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: And, indeed, your own electronic copy.
 * You Are Number Six: Crewman Fifty-one.