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Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota 1)
Ada Palmer

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. 
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But Mycroft has his own secrets. He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives, a wild car no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesised. 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?

GENRE
Sci-Fi; Fantasy

UK PUBLICATION
July 2017

​Praise

Winner of the John W. Campbell Award at the Hugo Awards 2016

​Winner of the Compton Crook Award 2017


"Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent."
Ken Liu, author of The Wall of Storms

"... awe-inspiring..."
NPR​

"... dizzyingly inventive..."

The Guardian


​Also by Ada Palmer

Terra Ignota series
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US: Tor Books

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