Palmer Ada - Seven Surrenders Book 2 Of Terra Ignota - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: *2018 Locus Award Finalist FOR BEST Science Fiction Novel Category* From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer the second book of Terra Ignota a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity A cornucopia of dazzling sharp ideas set in rich wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative erudite inventive resplendent. Ken Liu author of The Grace of Kings In a future of near - instantaneous global travel of abundant provision for the needs of all a future in which no one living can remember an actual war a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few the leaders of the great Hives nations without fixed locations have long conspired to keep the world stable at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way. Mycroft Canner convict sentenced to wander the globe in service to all knows more about this conspiracy than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster counselor sensayer has secrets as well and they burden Carlyle beyond description. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger the child who can bring inanimate objects to life. Shot through with astonishing invention Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great science fiction epics of our time. Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love murder mayhem parenthood theology and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time. Max Gladstone author of Three Parts Dead Terra Ignota 1. Too Like the Lightning 2. Seven Surrenders 3. The Will to Battle 4. Perhaps the Stars
Title: Seven Surrenders Book 2 Of Terra Ignota
Author(s): Palmer Ada
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780765378033
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/28/2017
Series: Terra Ignota