#157 in Science fiction
Perhaps the Stars
- 586
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Perhaps the Stars” brings Ada Palmer’s “Terra Ignota” to a demanding and richly rewarding close. This fourth volume follows “Too Like the Lightning”, “Seven Surrenders” and “The Will to Battle”, and needs all three behind it. Some readers praise its poetic prose, its dense web of ideas and the revelations it keeps for the end, and plan to reread it; others, though moved, find the ending not quite perfect.
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About the book
Perhaps the Stars is the fourth novel in a science fiction quartet called Terra Ignota, written by the American author Ada Palmer. It was published on November 21, 2021. It is preceded by Too Like the Lightning (2016), Seven Surrenders (2017), and The Will to Battle (2017).
Reading order · Terra Ignota
Full order & progress →- Too Like the LightningStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - Seven Surrenders
8.08.0 / 10 - The Will to Battle
8.08.0 / 10 - Perhaps the StarsThis book
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.9 across 64 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 30% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.9 | 64 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Perhaps the Stars?
It has 586 pages — longer than 77% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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