![]() ![]() She is 16 months from her 18th birthday, when she will reach the age of majority and be released to her kingdom. Canada), has been a hostage at Precepture Four – “a refitted monastery and a few acres of permaculture garden, somewhere in Saskatchewan” – for more than a decade. Gathered in isolated preceptures, these “Children of Peace” are hostages – their parents govern with the knowledge that should they declare war, it will mean death for the children of both the aggressor and the aggrieved.Īs The Scorpion Rules opens, Royal High Princess Greta Gustafson Stuart, Duchess of Halifax and Crown Princess of the Pan Polar Confederacy (a.k.a. ![]() ![]() He then implements a system that requires the heads of each nation to offer up a child as a guarantee of obedience. Talis gains control via city-annihilating air strikes launched from the orbital platforms he controls. In response, the United Nations appoints Talis, an artificial intelligence, to oversee the world and bring the wars to an end. Inevitably, the situation leads to violent clashes between nations, to the point that humanity is in danger of extinction. ![]() Following the melting of the polar ice caps, large portions of the world have flooded, and the rest is divided into nation-states, each vying for limited resources and potable water. In the future as described by Erin Bow in her stunning and harrowing new novel, the political becomes very personal. ![]()
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