PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781786699503
- Categories BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F SFF, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fiction, PNSG_OCT, R/R
- Author(s) Ada Palmer
- Publisher Head of Zeus
- Pages 576
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 12.9cm x 3.8cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.47 kg
product description
The year is 2454: Earth's hard-won utopian society is threatened by a young boy with apparently god-like powers. 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 prophesied. 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?