Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer
Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer
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Perhaps the Stars

Author: Ada Palmer

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 35 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/02/2021


Synopsis

From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award–shortlisted Terra Ignota series.

World Peace turns into global civil war.

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered
humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of a special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

Now, war spreads throughout the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. All transportation systems are in ruins, causing the tyranny of distance to fracture a long-united Earth and threaten to obliterate everything the Hive system built.

With the arch-criminal Mycroft nowhere to be found, his successor, Ninth Anonymous, must not only chronicle the discord of war, but attempt to restore order in a world spiraling closer to irreparable ruin.

The fate of a broken society hangs in the balance. Is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to start anew throughout the far reaches of the stars?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 25, 2021

There is no easy way to review this or the other three books in this cycle without first distinguishing the whole lot from all other SF. It is important to note that this one is smarter, denser, more deeply thoughtful, and planned out than most heavily world-built stories. If you took your extensive......more

Goodreads review by aden on October 14, 2023

I did not enjoy a majority of this book. Up until the last 50 pages, I was going to give this 2 stars. But I'm sentimental, and these are emotional books with big ideas which really tug at your heart. And even though soooo much of this final book frustrated me, if I'm trying to be as objective as po......more

Goodreads review by Allison on December 23, 2021

I needed to give myself time to digest this book. It is weird. If you put the minds of Jo Walton, China Mieville, Homer, Voltaire, and Rodenberry in a blender, and baked the resultant goo into a cake, that cake would be almost the same taste as this book, and about as plausible an occurrence. But I.........more

Goodreads review by Jake on August 14, 2024

This is truly unlike anything I have ever read. There were rare times when that was a bad thing, I could have maybe used slightly less internal monologues about Ares, Poseidon, and Distance, and there is an ever so slight uptick in this book of an entire page being the narrator thinking about stuff.......more

Goodreads review by Asher on January 28, 2021

In some ways, it's hard to review this book without talking about the plot because there's so damn much of it and it's so damn compelling. Worry thee not, noble reader, I shall endeavour to shield you from the smallest spoilerous detail. Look, if you're reading the final volume in a series, you've e......more