Too like the lightning : a narrative of events of the year 2454

Palmer, Ada2017

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2454. Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age, forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion and nation state from the planet. Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world, their rule fuelled by benign censorship, oracular statistical analytics and technological abundance. Convicted for his crimes, celebrated for his talents, Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument - and confidant - of some of the world's most powerful figures. When he is asked to investigate a simple theft, he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could trigger the apocalyptic war the hives have striven, for three centuries, to deny. But Mycroft has his own secrets. He knows the seven hives face a much greater threat to their existence, a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesied. This threat takes the unlikely form of a 13-year-old called Bridger.