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100 1 _aPalmer, Ada,
_eauthor.
_9199947
245 1 4 _aThe will to battle /
_cby Ada Palmer.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bTor,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a352 pages ;
_c25 cm.
490 1 _aTerra Ignota ;
_vbook 3.
500 _a"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
520 _a"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"--
650 4 _aUtopias
_vFiction.
_96974
655 0 _aScience fiction.
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_9128598
800 1 _aPalmer, Ada,
_eauthor.
_tTerra Ignota ;
_vbook 3.
_9199948
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