Seven Surrenders

Ada Palmer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:5th Apr '18

£9.99

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The second episode in the ambitious Terra Ignota series from a Hugo-shortlisted author.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision, a future in which no one living can recall an actual war... a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.

The year is 2454. The sun is setting on a hard-won golden age. For three centuries, humanity has enjoyed peace and prosperity fuelled by technological abundance, oracular data analytics, careful censorship... and just a little blood. In a world dominated by seven factions, or 'Hives', the price of peace has been a few secret murders, mathematically planned to ensure political and economic balance. But now the secret is out, the balance is slipping and war beckons. Convict Mycroft Canner knew this war was coming – he committed his terrible crimes to forestall it. Now, he has just one card left, a wild card no degree of statistical genius could have predicted: a thirteen-year-old child with the power to work miracles. Turning thought into matter, matter in life, this child has the power to save the world, or to doom it

Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent -- Ken Liu
The kind of science fiction that makes me excited all over again about what science fiction can do -- Jo Walton
Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing... The best science fiction I've read in a long while' -- Robert Charles Wilson

ISBN: 9781786699541

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480 pages