From 2017 John W.
The Will to Battle.
Seven Surrenders3.
Too Like the Lightning2.
I haven\'t had this much fun with a Book in a long time.`` --Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead Terra Ignota1.
Shot through with astonishing invention, Ada Palmer\'s Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great SF epics of our time.``Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics.
And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life.
Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description.
Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy than he can ever admit.
And yet the balance is beginning to give way.
So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds.
A few secret murders, mathematically planned.
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.
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.
Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second Book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity``A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight.
From 2017 John W
