Seven surrenders : a narrative of events of the year 2454
Palmer, Ada2017
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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 by technological abundance, oracular statistical analysis, censorship and just a little blood. For three centuries, the price of peace has been a few secret murders, mathematically planned to ensure that no single Hive dominates. It is a precarious balance, but now someone is intent on pushing it beyond its tipping point. The price of imbalance is war - a war that could destroy humanity - and no one knows this better than convict Mycroft Canner, who, as his sentence, now serves the secret leaders working to forestall war. But this time he guards a secret - a wild card that no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesied.
Main title:
Seven surrenders : a narrative of events of the year 2454 / by Ada Palmer.
Author:
Palmer, Ada, author
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2017.
Collation:
365 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Terra Ignota series ; book II.
Notes:
Originally published: US: Tom Doherty Associates.
ISBN:
9781786699527 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2590700