Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota #2)

Description

It 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 by technological abundance, oracular statistical analysis, censorship and just a little blood. For centuries, the price of peace has been a few secret murders, mathematically planned. Convict Mycroft Canner knows more about this conspiracy than he can ever admit, but he also conceals 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?

Reviews

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

Author description

Ada Palmer is an author, historian and composer. She did her PhD at Harvard, teaches History at the University of Chicago, blogs at ExUrbe.com, composes close harmony folk music and performs with the a capella group Sassafrass.