TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palmer,Ada
TI  - The will to battle
T2  - Terra Ignota
SN  - 9780765378040
AV  - PS3616.A33879 W55 2017
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Tor
KW  - Utopias
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
N2  - "The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world's stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. The Hives' façade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past. But as the great secret becomes more and more widely known, that façade is slipping away. Just days earlier, the world was a pinnacle of human civilization. Now everyone--Hives and hiveless, Utopians and sensayers, emperors and the downtrodden, warriors and saints--scrambles to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war"--
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