Seven Surrenders

Book Details

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Author(s):

Ada Palmer

First Pub:

2017

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Internal ID:

13627

Series:

<- Too Like the Lightning - The Will to Battle ->

Terra Ignota*

#2 of 4

Terra Ignota*

A science-fiction series by Ada Palmer.

View this series in the book list

1) Too Like the Lightning
2) Seven Surrenders
3) The Will to Battle
4) Perhaps the Stars

First Sentence:

Nihil Obstat - 'nothing prevents it' - was the old license-by-fiat which kings and inquisitors pronounced in stifled ages when no printing press could give its inky kiss to paper until Tyrant Church and Tyrant State had loosed censorship's universal gag.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

If Providence sent Achilles to guide us in our day of greatest need, if we survive this war, rebuild, and if in future days some blessed generation is judged worthy to receive a second chance at what God tried to give us when He first sent Bridger, it may be that He grants humanity all this because you, child of a nobler future, asked Him to.

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Added: 04-May-2023

Last Updated: 05-May-2023

Publications

07-Mar-2017

Recorded Books

Audiobook

Date Issued:

Cir 07-Mar-2017

Format:

Audiobook

Length:

17 hrs 30 min (366 pages)

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23204

Publisher:

Recorded Books

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

T Ryder Smith - Narration

From audible.com:

The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity

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 location, 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 the 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, Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great SF epics of our time.

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Author(s)

Ada Palmer

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