Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2)

by Ada Palmer

Yes, reader, you are here too, inside Mukta, or rather you watch through the eyes of someone hidden within, our witness for this secret conference, spying from inside the ancient car.

It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And a spark. You think there aren’t plenty of sparks today?

“Terminus est,

This is a fun little easter egg!

Only Utopia thinks the future is more important than the present, that there are worlds that we could make which are worth destroying the one we have here.

The first lesson you will learn when war reaches you, reader, is that our limits in civilian life, the point at which we are too tired, too distraught, too weak to go on, are not really our limits. I rose and saluted.