The Golden Age (ISBN 0312848706) is a science fiction story by John C. Wright. It takes place in his single future universe, and is his first novel.

The story revolves around the protagonist Phaethon Prime Rhadamanth Humodified (augment) Uncomposed, Indepconciousness, Base Neuroformed, Silver-Gray Manorial Schola, Era 7043 (the "Reawakening"). Phaethon begins the novel by slowly uncovering a hidden past - a past that was seemingly edited out of his mind by himself.