The Will to Battle
- 432
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Ada Palmer’s “The Will to Battle” carries the “Terra Ignota” quartet toward war with the same intellectual ambition as the first two books. Its world edges closer to open conflict, and Mycroft Canner still holds the narration. Some readers find the narrator’s ruminations long-winded from about the midpoint, while others count the difficulty as part of the reward. It belongs firmly after “Too Like the Lightning” and “Seven Surrenders”.
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About the book
The Will to Battle is the third novel in a science fiction quartet called Terra Ignota, written by the American author Ada Palmer. It was published on December 19, 2017. It was a finalist for the 2018 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. It is preceded by Too Like the Lightning (2016) and Seven Surrenders (2017). It is followed by Perhaps the Stars (2021).
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 BattleThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - Perhaps the Stars
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 95 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 39% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.0 | 6 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 89 | 94% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Will to Battle?
It has 432 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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