

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.

Now, war spreads throughout the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities.

All it needed was a catalyst, in form of a special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos. Humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered 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. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award–shortlisted Terra Ignota series.
