Seven Surrenders
Seven Surrenders
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Author(s): Palmer, Ada
ISBN No.: 9781786699534
Pages: 368
Year: 201801
Format: UK-Trade Paper (Trade Paper)
Price: $ 26.34
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

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. 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 by technological abundance, oracular statistical analysis, censorship and just a little blood. For three centuries, the price of peace has been a few secret murders, mathematically planned to ensure that no single Hive dominates. It is a precarious balance, but now someone is intent on pushing it beyond its tipping point. The price of imbalance is war - a war that could destroy humanity - and no one knows this better than convict Mycroft Canner, who, as his sentence, now serves the secret leaders working to forestall war.


But this time he guards a secret - a wild card that no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesied. Canner's wild card takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old child. A child who can work miracles - turning thought into matter, into life - a child with the power to save the world, or to doom it.


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