Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)

by Ada Palmer

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The year is 2454.

Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age, forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion and nation state from the planet. Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world, their rule fuelled by benign censorship, oracular statistical analytics and technological abundance. But this is a fragile Utopia – and someone is intent on pushing it to breaking point.

Convicted for his crimes, celebrated for his talents, Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument – and confidant – of some of the world's most powerful figures. When he is asked to investigate a bizarre theft, he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could shatter the tranquil world order the Hives have maintained for three centuries.

But Mycroft has his own secrets. He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives, a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesied. This threat takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old called Bridger. For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?
  • ISBN10 1786699486
  • ISBN13 9781786699480
  • Publish Date 13 July 2017 (first published 10 May 2016)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 July 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Head of Zeus
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English