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9781786699602

Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota IV) - Limited Edition

Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota IV) - Limited Edition

by Ada Palmer

Publisher Head of Zeus

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About the book

The final instalment in Ada Palmer's award-winning, critically acclaimed Terra Ignota series.

The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. 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. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. The Hives' facade 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. But as the great secret becomes more and more widely known, that facade is slipping away. Just days earlier, the world was a pinnacle of human civilization. Now everyone? Hives and hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and the downtrodden, warriors and saints scramble to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war.

About the Author

Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer is an author of science fiction and fantasy, a historian and a composer. She is a current finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her debut novel, Too Like the Lightening, Book 1 of the Terra Ignota series, is a Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novel.

The novel is also the winner for the 2017 Compton Crook Award and was included in many 'Best SFF' lists in 2016, including Barnes & Noble's and the Guardian's, and was a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction as well as Tor.com's Reviewer Choice.

Ada's series mixes Enlightenment-era philosophy with traditional science fiction speculation to show us the year 2454, a utopian future threatened by cultural upheaval.

Ada Palmer teaches in the History Department at the University of Chicago, and did her PhD at Harvard University. She composes close harmony folk music with mythological, science fiction and fantasy themes, and performs with the a cappella group, Sassafrass. She also studies the history of manga anime, especially the 'God of Manga' Osamu Tezuka, blogs for Tor.com and writes the history / philosophy blog ExUrbe.com.

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