Too Like the Lightning - Couverture souple

Palmer, Ada

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786699508 ISBN 13 : 9781786699503

Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2017

Synopsis

The year is 2454: Earth's hard-won utopian society is threatened by a young boy with apparently god-like powers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Visit her website www.adapalmer.com or follow her on Bluesky at @adapalmer

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

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 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?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Head of Zeus
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786699508
• ISBN 13: 9781786699503
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible