Too Like the Lightning

John W. Campbell and Compton Crook award-winning author Ada Palmer presents a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity in the Terra Ignota series.

In a utopian future, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed locations, have kept 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. Mycroft Canner and Carlyle Foster are aware of this conspiracy - as well as the secret that could end it: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life.

“Palmer proves that the boundaries of science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be married together.” - Publishers Weekly (on Seven Surrenders)