Perhaps the Stars
Written by Ada Palmer
Narrated by T. Ryder Smith
4/5
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About this audiobook
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?
Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer (she/her) is a professor in the history department of the University of Chicago, specializing in Renaissance history and the history of ideas. Her first nonfiction book, Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance, was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. She is also a composer of folk and Renaissance-tinged a cappella vocal music on historical themes, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. She writes about history for a popular audience at exurbe.com and about SF and fantasy-related matters at Tor.com. Too Like the Lightning was her debut fiction book.
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Reviews for Perhaps the Stars
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5What a train wreck. Why did I finish this entire series?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As readable and engaging as this book is, it is still way longer than its content requires unless the energetic passionate invention of the author's voice through seemingly endless elaborations is necessary to your fulfillment. The base internal realities of a caring outsider and the worthiness of some humans for the stars, well, they aren't the sells for me that Palmer seems to expect and the length at which they are advanced diluted what I found worth reading.