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From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series. World Peace turns into global civil war. 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. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos. Now, war spreads throughout the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. 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. With the arch-criminal Mycroft nowhere to be found, his successor, Ninth Anonymous, must not only chronicle the discord of war, but attempt to restore order in a world spiraling closer to irreparable ruin. The fate of a broken society hangs in the balance. Is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to start anew throughout the far reaches of the stars? Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects, and cinematic music! Performed by Chris Stinson, Elena Anderson, David Cui Cui, Kay Eluvian, Jenna Sharpe, Robb Moreira, Lydia Kraniotis, Lise Bruneau, Keval Shah, NJ Agwuna, Dawn Ursula, Su Ling Chan, Jacob Yeh, Crystal Lee, Neha Gargava, Wyn Delano, Stephon Walker, Gail Shalan, Duyen Washington, Mecca Rogers, Valentina Vinci, Shanta Parasuraman, Elias Khalil, Colleen Delany, Nora Achrati, James Konicek, Ken Jackson, Yasmin Tuazon, Matthew Bassett, Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Williams, and Christopher Walker.

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Ada Palmer is the author of the Terra Ignota fiction series and winner of the John W. Campbell Award. She is a professor in the history department of the University of Chicago, specializing in Renaissance history and the history of ideas. She is also a composer of folk and Renaissance-tinged a cappella music, 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. A diverse cast of individuals worked together to achieve the brilliant sound and performances contained in this audiobook. Keval Shah is an experienced audiobook narrator who started his voice-acting journey in the remote plains of East Africa before moving to the UK. A professionally trained actor with a facility for accents, he uses his Indian/British/Ugandan cultural mix to bring diverse performances to his projects. Robb Moreira a bilingual audiobook narrator and voiceover artist with over a decade of acting training through the Fame School of the Arts and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has experience working on IVR, medical training videos, descriptions for the blind, and commercials. He is currently the voice of Pushy the Push Pop in the US and Canada and has worked Off-Broadway.

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