Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota)
Terra Ignota
Ada Palmer
ISBN: | 9781786699503 |
Publisher: | Head of Zeus |
Published: | 11 January, 2018 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota)
Terra Ignota
Ada Palmer
The year is 2454: Earth's hard-won utopian society is threatened by a young boy with apparently god-like powers. Shortlisted for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel . The year is 2454. Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age, forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion and nation state from the planet. Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world, their rule fuelled by benign censorship, oracular statistical analytics and technological abundance. But this is a fragile Utopia – and someone is intent on pushing it to breaking point. Convicted for his crimes, celebrated for his talents, Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument – and confidant – of some of the world's most powerful figures. When he is asked to investigate a bizarre theft, he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could shatter the tranquil world order the Hives have maintained for three centuries. But Mycroft has his own secrets. He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives, a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesised. This threat takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old called Bridger. For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?
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