The next book 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 nobody living can remember a genuine war.a long era of balance threatens to come quickly to an abrupt end. For known and then several, the market leaders of the great Hives, countries without fixed location, have lengthy conspired to keep carefully the world steady, at the expense of just a little blood. Several secret murders, mathematically about Seven Surrenders planned. In order that no faction can ever dominate, and the total amount holds. Yet the balance is beginning to give way. Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the world in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy the than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets aswell, plus they burden Carlyle beyond explanation. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are aware of the greatest magic formula of most: Bridger, the kid who can bring inanimate objects alive. Shot through with amazing invention, Seven Surrenders may be the following movement in another of the fantastic SF epics of our period.