Too Like the Lightning - Nominiert: Hugo Awards Best Novel, 2017
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| Verlag | Head of Zeus |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 576 |
| Format | 16,7 x 19,8 x 3,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 398 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Terra Ignota 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 1786699508 |
| EAN | 9781786699503 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78669950UA |
The year is 2454: Earth's hard-won utopian society is threatened by a young boy with apparently god-like powers.
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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-y ear-old called Bridger. For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?
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'More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I can recall' Cory Doctorow
