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From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originality Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a wo...

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Wir schreiben das Jahr 2454. Drei Jahrhunderte des Friedens und ein hart erkämpftes goldenes Zeitalter haben ein jähes Ende gefunden. Die einst unerschütterliche Vormachtstellung der sieben großen Hives bröckelt. Korruption und Betrug haben das System unterhöhlt. Aggression und Blutdurst, die Jahrhunderte lang unterdrückt wurden, sind nun wieder entfesselt worden. Die schreckliche Wahrheit lautet, dass der ewige Frieden mit einem Geflecht aus ...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2454. Den Anführern der großen, weltumspannenden Hives, die an die Stelle der alten Nationalstaaten getreten sind, ist es lange Zeit gelungen, durch geheime Abkommen die Weltordnung auf einem stabilen Niveau zu halten. Doch das fragile Konstrukt des globalen Gleichgewichts zeigt erste Risse. Mycroft Canners Amoklauf und der Mythos um die nahezu magischen Fähigkeiten des jungen Bridgers setzen Ereignisse in Gang, die von ...

From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations-nations without fixed location-clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless gl...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2454. Die Menschheit befindet sich in einem hart erkämpften goldenen Zeitalter, in dem Religionen und auch Nationalstaaten keinen Platz mehr haben. Sieben Fraktionen - die sogenannten "Hives" - regieren nun gemeinsam die Welt, deren Herrschaft durch eine wohlwollende Zensur, statistische Analysen und technologischen Reichtum gestützt wird. Aber das Fundament dieser neuen Welt ist brüchig ... Verurteilt für seine Verbrech...

From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series...

In the final instalment of the Terra Ignota series, the long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end...

In the final instalment of the Terra Ignota series, the long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end...

The Will to Battle is the third book of John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity.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 centuri...

Third in the "Terra Ignota" series, set in 2454. War is inevitable as three centuries of savagery and bloodlust are unleashed.

FICTION / Science Fiction / General

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision, a future in which no one living can recall an actual war... a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.

FICTION / Science Fiction / General

FICTION / Science Fiction / General

FICTION / Science Fiction / General

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*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity"A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent." -Ken Liu, author of The Grace of KingsIn a future of near-instantaneous global ...

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.