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ISBN# 0765329271. Published December 2011 as a hardback by Tor books.
Read the first chapter of the book online!
Not exactly an interview, but, whatever. Here is the link.
“It’s a pity the word 'awesome' has been misused to the point of meaninglessness:
it would once have been an ideal description of Count To A Trillion. Instead,
I’ll say that the novel came perilously close to
overloading my capacity for wonder, burning out all my ‘gosh’ circuits--and
I¹ve been reading science fiction assiduously since 1954. Mr.
Wright is a major figure in the recent renaissance of space opera, the
kind of writer who is equally at home with hard science and poetry, the
kind you read slowly and carefully, and very happily. Count
to a trillion, as slow as you like: you’ll be done long before you forget
this story, or its Texan gunfighter hero, a child-abuse survivor yearning
with all his heart for a cartoon future of hope called The Asymptote.”
“Spectacularly clever… in weaving together cutting edge speculation
along the outer fringes of science. Highly impressive.”
“R.A.Lafferty meets A.E.VanVogt in a cakewalk through a future full
of anti-matter, alien artifacts, transhumans, an Iron Ghost, a Texas gunfighter,
and a Space Princess. Well
worth the price of admission."
“Wright is at his best…. Appealing to readers interested in glimpses
of the unfathomable immensities of our universe.”
“An awe-inspiring book, brave and full of wonder. Count
to a Trillion pokes grand fun of humanity and post-humanity alike.”
“An elegant stylist and a true visionary, Wright will delight hard sf
fans with his exuberance, while his characters and plot keep the action
fast and furious.”
“This is much more than a space opera, and fills your mind with intriguing, startling possibilities. John Wright’s novel is bursting with ideas, blending mythology, machine and human evolution, mathematics, space travel, and much more. The hero, Montrose, is caught in the crosshairs of deadly, highly unusual foes—and his fate could very well determine the fate of everyone on Earth. Ultimately this is about human survival and potential, the future of mankind across a trillion star systems.” --Brian Herbert