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Authors: John C. Wright

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Hell, he was not all that sure if he were still alive himself.

Montrose laughed. Then, with a slow, sickening, floating, flowing, spinning motion, he entered a darkness blacker and wider than outer space. It seemed to him as if ancient titans, indescribable, bent with shining eyes over the dark well in which the whole sidereal universe was caught, a knot of night punctuated by tiny stars, and wondered at the fate of the small living things trapped within.

TOR BOOKS BY JOHN C. WRIGHT

The Golden Age

The Phoenix Exultant

The Golden Transcendence

The Last Guardian of Everness

Mists of Everness

Orphans of Chaos

Fugitives of Chaos

Titans of Chaos

Null-A Continuum

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

COUNT TO A TRILLION

Copyright © 2011 by John C. Wright

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wright, John C. (John Charles), 1961–

Count to a trillion / John C. Wright.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-2927-1 (hardback)

I.  Title.

    PS3623.R54C68 2011

    813'.6—dc22

2011024212

First Edition: December 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-8637-3

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