The Will to Battle is the third Book of John W.
But as the great se.
The Hives\' fa ade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past.
So that the balance held.
So that no faction could ever dominate.
The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world\'s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned.
Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.
Peace and order are now figments of the past.
The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.
Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer\'s Terra Ignota series, a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity. --Max Gladstone, author of Ruin of AngelsTerra Ignota Series #1 Too Like the Lightning #2 Seven Surrenders #3 The Will to Battle The Will to Battle is the third Book of John W.
I haven\'t had this much fun with a Book in a long time.
Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.--Ken Liu, author of The Wall of StormsSeven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics.
Now everyone--Hives and hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and the downtrodden, warriors and saints--scrambles to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war.
Praise for Seven SurrendersA cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight.
But as the great secret becomes more and more widely known, that fa ade is slipping away.
Just days earlier, the world was a pinnacle of human civilization.
So that the balance held.
The Hives\' fa ade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past.
So that no faction could ever dominate.
Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.
The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world\'s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned.
Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer\'s Terra Ignota series, a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity.
The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.
Peace and order are now figments of the past.
The Will to Battle is the third Book of John W
