The Eschaton Sequence

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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 At least according to Blackie
• 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: What really happened to Prince Ranier.
• 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.