Shortlisted for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best SF Novel. 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?
Terra Ignota Série
Prozkoumejte budoucnost, kde se politická strategie snoubí s filozofickým zamyšlením v tomto pozoruhodném sci-fi eposu. V utopickém světě, kde mocenské struktury fungují bez pevných hranic, se skryté spiknutí snaží udržet křehkou rovnováhu. Hlavní postavy se ocitají v centru intrik, které odhalují temné tajemství světa a hrozbu nevyhnutelné války, jež může všechno zničit. Toto je příběh o hledání pravdy v atomizované společnosti a boji o formování budoucnosti.
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