Templar Chronicles 8: Nephilim's Rise

The second full cast audiobook of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity!In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.Shot through with astonishing invention, Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great SF epics of our time..

For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood..And yet the balance is beginning to give way. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds.

And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s..

From the winner of the 2017 John W.

What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations.And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true.