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Book SynopsisThe year is 2454. The sun is setting on a
hard-won golden age. For three centuries, humanity has enjoyed
peace and prosperity fuelled by technological abundance, oracular data analytics, careful censorship... and
just a little blood. In a world
dominated by seven factions, or 'Hives', the price of peace has been a few
secret murders, mathematically planned to ensure
political and economic balance. But now the secret is out, the balance is slipping and
war beckons. Convict Mycroft Canner knew this
war was coming – he committed his terrible crimes to forestall it. Now, he has just one card left, a
wild card no degree of statistical genius could have predicted: a thirteen-year-old child with the power to work miracles. Turning thought into matter, matter in life,
this child has the power to save the world, or to doom it.
Trade ReviewProvocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent -- Ken Liu
The kind of science fiction that makes me excited all over again about what science fiction can do -- Jo Walton
Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing... The best science fiction I've read in a long while' -- Robert Charles Wilson
