The Will to Battle
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 2017
448 pages
978-1-78669-955-8 (ISBN)
Description
The year is 2454. Three centuries of peace and a hard-won golden age have come to an abrupt end.
The once steadfast leadership of the seven Hives is crumbling, soured by corruption and deception. Savagery and bloodlust, three-centuries suppressed, have been unleashed.
The terrible truth is that centuries of peace were bought with a trickle of secret murders. The killings were mathematically planned, meticulously organised to preserve the balance - to ensure no faction could dominate.
But now the secret is out, the balance has tipped, the Hives' utopian façade has slipped. Just days ago, humanity stood at the pinnacle of civilization. Now everyone - Hives and Hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and convicts, warriors and saints - is preparing for war.
The once steadfast leadership of the seven Hives is crumbling, soured by corruption and deception. Savagery and bloodlust, three-centuries suppressed, have been unleashed.
The terrible truth is that centuries of peace were bought with a trickle of secret murders. The killings were mathematically planned, meticulously organised to preserve the balance - to ensure no faction could dominate.
But now the secret is out, the balance has tipped, the Hives' utopian façade has slipped. Just days ago, humanity stood at the pinnacle of civilization. Now everyone - Hives and Hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and convicts, warriors and saints - is preparing for war.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-955-8 (9781786699558)
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Ada Palmer
The Will to Battle
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12/2017
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Ada Palmer is an author, historian and composer. She did her PhD at Harvard, teaches History at the University of Chicago, blogs at ExUrbe.com, composes close harmony folk music and performs with the a capella group Sassafrass.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About The Will to Battle
- Contents
- Top Secret Material: Not for Publication or Distribution
- A Seven-Ten List
- Epigraph
- Chapter the First: We the Alphabet
- Chapter the Second: Human Dignity
- Chapter the Third: Is This the Spark?
- Chapter the Fourth: Ghost
- Chapter the Fifth: Strangest Senator
- Chapter the Sixth: Lex Prohibit-The Law Forbids
- Chapter the Seventh: Grace
- Chapter the Eighth: Enemy Sanctum
- Chapter the Ninth: Repercussions
- Chapter the Tenth: Our Secret Truce
- Chapter the Eleventh: Inviolable
- Chapter the Twelfth: The Temple of Janus
- Chapter the Thirteenth: The Five Gates of Esperanza City
- Chapter the Fourteenth: Filial Piety
- Chapter the Fifteenth: Some Notes of Martin Guildbreaker on the Simultaneous Advancement of Four Investigations
- Chapter the Sixteenth: The Witch
- Chapter the Seventeenth: The Witch Again
- Chapter the Eighteenth: Terra Ignota
- Chapter the Nineteenth: Angry, the Leviathans
- Chapter the Twentieth: The Race for Cato Weeksbooth
- Chapter Twenty-one
- Author's Note and Acknowledgements
- About Ada Palmer
- About the Terra Ignota Series
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
