Perhaps the Stars
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2021
608 pages
978-1-78669-959-6 (ISBN)
Description
The final instalment in Ada Palmer's award-winning, critically acclaimed Terra Ignota series.
For years, the leaders of the Hive clandestinely committed terrible deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could last only so long. Global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. A catalyst - in the form of a special little boy - was all it took to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.
Now war spreads across the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. All transportation systems are in danger, fracturing a long-united world and threatening to obliterate everything the Hive system built.
With Mycroft Canner nowhere to be found, his successor must attempt to restore order in a world spiralling ever closer to irreparable ruin. But is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to aim for the stars?
'Incredibly ambitious and groundbreaking... Palmer writes gloriously lush prose stuffed with asides, allusions and nods to the reader' Guardian
For years, the leaders of the Hive clandestinely committed terrible deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could last only so long. Global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. A catalyst - in the form of a special little boy - was all it took to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.
Now war spreads across the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. All transportation systems are in danger, fracturing a long-united world and threatening to obliterate everything the Hive system built.
With Mycroft Canner nowhere to be found, his successor must attempt to restore order in a world spiralling ever closer to irreparable ruin. But is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to aim for the stars?
'Incredibly ambitious and groundbreaking... Palmer writes gloriously lush prose stuffed with asides, allusions and nods to the reader' Guardian
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-959-6 (9781786699596)
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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
- Also by Ada Palmer
- Welcome Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Perhaps the Stars
- The Sides So Far
- Epigraph
- Chapter One: World Civil War
- Chapter Two: The Battle of Cielo De Pájaros
- Chapter Three: Now I Am in a Place
- Chapter Four: The Uniform Question
- Chapter Five: Operation Baskerville
- Chapter Six: A Sea of Flags
- Chapter Seven: A Secret Friend
- Chapter Eight: The Battle for the Almagest
- Chapter Nine: How Carlyle Foster Saved the World
- Chapter Ten: Pass-It-On
- Chapter the Eleventh: The God Who Rings the Earth
- Chapter the Twelfth: The Battle for Romanova
- Chapter the Thirteenth: Diary of a U-beast
- Chapter the Fourteenth: Faustpact
- Chapter the Fifteenth: Man Made
- Chapter the Sixteenth: Damnatio Memoriae
- Chapter the Seventeenth: The Second Battle for the Almagest
- Chapter the Eighteenth: Help from Outside
- Chapter Nineteen: Peacemaker
- Chapter Twenty: Will You Take the Oath, Prince?
- Chapter Twenty-One: Transcript from a Hospital Bed
- Chapter Twenty-Two: I Can't Do It Alone and I Don't Have To
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Until My Uncle Answers Me
- Chapter Twenty-Four: I Have to Move the Mountain
- Chapter the Twenty-Fifth: The Wrath of Achilles
- Chapter the Twenty-Sixth: No One
- Chapter the Twenty-Seventh: Melodrama
- Chapter the Twenty-Eighth: An Alphabet for Strangers
- Chapter the Twenty-Ninth: The Battle of Ingolstadt
- Chapter the Thirtieth: Peacefall
- Chapter the Thirty-First: Seven Peacefalls
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Terra Ignota Series
- An Invitation from the Publisher
