Reviewer Praise for COUNT TO A TRILLION

Mr Vogt over at Examiner.Com has a kind word to say about COUNT TO A TRILLION.

http://www.examiner.com/speculative-fiction-in-national/review-count-to-a-trillion-by-john-c-wright-review

What would you do to make yourself smarter? Study harder? Get a private tutor? Invest in a Ph.D.?

Stab yourself in the brain with an untested cocktail of intelligence enhancers based on formulae inscribed on an alien artifact?

Maybe not the wisest approach–but hey, if you were smart enough to realize that, perhaps that brain booster wouldn’t have been necessary anyways.

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Count to a Trillion is an epic science fiction novel that travels more through the uncharted vastness of human intellect than it does through space itself. It asks questions such as, “How much does intelligence define the human nature?” and “Can humanity even be trusted to chart its own evolution?” Some readers may find themselves skimming the more esoteric portions, where Menelaus grapples with his heightened thinking, but these sections do give a good sense that he’s gone beyond anything compared to normal levels of human intellect. This book won’t hand you any easy answers, but will leave you pondering long after the final page–and any story that encourages deeper thinking is worth tackling in my estimation.

No one ever told me that the hard part of being a writer would be fending off a natural modesty that urges one to deprecate or contradict the flattery of pleased readers. Another danger is the opposite one, the desire to vaunt and prance like  Cassius Clay for every slight compliment. Even modest fame is not good for the soul.

I think the way to avoid both Scylla and Charybdis is simply to be grateful to the muses and to the readers for their favors, which they bestow by grace, not which the writer by his own accomplishment earns.

But in this case, the reviewer is right about the book. I hope.

Go out immediately and buy a copy or nine in hardback for Fat Tuesday! Reading my books can be your penance over Lent!