The world of the future faces an out of control ecosystem in the form of overpopulation, pollution, and other environmental disasters, forcing Earth's government to convene for an emergency meeting. 15,000 first printing.

Soit un jeune Océanien, Yeff, étudiant sur la planète Diasphine et qui se découvre un talent pour le « Jeu », cette rencontre mentale entre « Penseurs » qui fait l'objet de tournois interstellaires.<br />Soit une « muse » professionnelle, Clyne, égérie d'un Penseur dont la carrière vient de s'achever brutalement.<br />Soit un étrange animal imprévisible mais convivial, le maedre, qui s'attache tout à trac aux pas de Yeff.<br />Trois personnages d'une aventure de trois décennies, opéra de l'espace et roman de suspense, voyage à travers des cultures bigarrées, parmi un bestiaire où l'auteur donne la mesure de son humour.

<b>From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.</b><br /><br />World Peace turns into global civil war.<br /><br />In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.<br /><br />Now, war spreads throughout the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. All transportation systems are in ruins, causing the tyranny of distance to fracture a long-united Earth and threaten to obliterate everything the Hive system built.<br /><br />With the arch-criminal Mycroft nowhere to be found, his successor, Ninth Anonymous, must not only chronicle the discord of war, but attempt to restore order in a world spiraling closer to irreparable ruin.<br /><br />The fate of a broken society hangs in the balance. Is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to start anew throughout the far reaches of the stars?