I enjoyed John C. Wright’s Golden Age trilogy and was excited to see that he had a new book coming out, Count to a Trillion. Unfortunately it was bland, padded and not very well done. The Golden Age Trilogy was full of big ideas and wondrous characters and, while Count to a Trillion has interesting characters and big ideas, it never pulls them together in an interesting way. The characters are too broadly drawn and the ideas are interesting, but barely relate to the story at times. Let’s see what went wrong.