Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2)

by Ada Palmer

Andō’s voice was steel. “All hives. You know Faust and MASON have already surrendered.” “MASON? But Xiao Hei Wang is Shan Huang Zi, they can’t be Shan Tai Zi.” (China has its own words for porphyrogene and Imperator Destinatus.) “Can they?”