I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time.' -Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts DeadĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ' Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics. Shot through with astonishing invention, Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great SF epics of our time. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life. Mycroft, who has been ordered to write this narrative, insists he has no power and he is not the protagonist in the story, but Mycroft is an unreliable narrator. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. Seven Surrenders continues the narrative of Mycroft Canner, a character in a unique position in the story: he is the center of a web of information. Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy the than he can ever admit.

And yet the balance is beginning to give way. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war.a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.įor known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed locations, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.' -Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings

'A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight.

Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity *2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*įrom 2017 John W.

Seven surrenders