![]() ![]() Public unrest rises at the revelation of some very unpleasant Hive government secrets (some of which were similarly intended to keep the peace at any price) and the machinations of Madame D’Arouet, a brilliant and politically connected brothel-keeper who uses sex and gender as weapons against a proudly gender-free society that is therefore defenseless against such ploys. Unfortunately, his efforts seem to have been in vain the last surviving Mardi has returned to Earth to continue his family’s work. They were forestalled by our narrator, Mycroft Canner, who brutally murdered them to prevent that war from ever coming about. But a few decades ago, the Mardi family determined that war was inevitable, and that the later it came, the more devastating it would be, and so decided to incite the war themselves to minimize the damage. This arrangement has worked so well that peace has reigned for 300 years, so long that no one would even know how to conduct a war if one were to break out. ![]() ![]() In 2454, nations, called Hives, are no longer based upon geographical location but upon intellectual and philosophical alignment. War and chaos loom in this conclusion to the story begun in Too Like the Lightning (2016), in which a child with godlike powers disrupts a supposedly serene future society built on Enlightenment principles. ![]()
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