This peace and plenty is delicately maintained by the relationships among a small cadre of world leaders.
Criminals are sentenced to indentured servitude to repay their debt to society there is no death penalty. Surveillance is universal individuals are equipped with personal tracker devices which allow for telecommunication and record a person's whereabouts (as the name suggests), but these can be switched off. Religion is legally restricted to private counseling relationships or sanctuary reservations. Families are no longer nuclear, but are organized into co-housing collectives called bash'houses (from the Japanese i-basho, meaning 'home' but stronger). Everyone is publicly gender neutral, using they/them pronouns. The workweek is 20 hours, but vocateurs, or vokers, voluntarily work much more because they love what they do.
Set in the year 2454, the Earth of Terra Ignota has seen several centuries of near-total peace and prosperity. The first novel was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the series as a whole was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series. The novels have won several awards, including a 2017 Compton Crook Award. The first three books cover the events leading up to the war and the final book covers the war itself. After three centuries of a global near-utopia, a minor crime and a miracle child begin to unravel the social system and lead the world to technologically-advanced total war. The series consists of Too Like the Lightning (2016), Seven Surrenders (2017), The Will to Battle (2017), and Perhaps the Stars (2021). Terra Ignota is a quartet of science fiction and philosophical novels by the American author Ada Palmer.
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