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    The Will to Battle
    The Will to Battle
    The Will to Battle
    Audiobook17 hours

    The Will to Battle

    Written by Ada Palmer

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith

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    The third book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity In a future of near-instantaneous global travel and abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war-war has finally come. This is book 3 of the 4-volume SF epic Terra Ignota.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 19, 2017
    ISBN9781501958823
    The Will to Battle
    Author

    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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    • 5/5
      Halfway through, I thought "OK, this is the in-between book where not much happens, except to set up the next book." I was wrong.
    • 5/5
      The third instalment of Terra Ignota is the same as the previous books, but different. The style remains (mostly; and when the authorial voice within the book changes, so does the style); but the world is changing, sliding towards war in the manner of the boiled frog. Events take place, some major, others seemingly minor. Only at the end do you look back and realise how far down the slope to conflict we have come.Though the pace is unchanged, there are bigger and better set-pieces; the Games of the 140th Olympiad, held in a city in Antarctica, are spectacularly described. Some of the set-pieces occur off-stage, but are none the less spectacular for all that; after all, these are novels about people as well as events, and seeing events through the perceptions of people who, like us, experience most of them second hand is still a human experience that we can share and understand. And along the way, more detail of the world is revealed, allowing us to fill in another corner of the bigger picture.A fourth volume is still to come, but it has been delayed for personal reasons. The amount of effort Ada Palmer has put into writing these books on top of her Day Job and other interests cannot be under-estimated, and that it could contribute to her state of health is understandable. There are plenty of readers willing to wait for the conclusion to the series for as long as it takes. All the more time to digest the story up to now.
    • 4/5
      In the troubled future where nations are mostly shady memory and religious speech is more regulated than murder, and loyalties are matters of choice over two hundred years of peace are coming unraveled either because the ugly mechanisms to maintain the peace have been exposed or because the consequence of the peace is an unacceptable stagnation. Mycroft Canner, committer of horrific murders and cannibalism, is our main, dubiously reliable, window on the upper escalations dealing with personal and political factions, who realign the factions they lead according to their relationship with a god whose parents they are, but whose origin is outside our reality. I am not really eager to read more about this inexplicably strange future and its mind bending characters, though it is well written and moves well. I will of course read the next book, but wouldn't have minded at all if a trilogy could have completed Palmer's exploration of this Terra Ignota.