TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cobley,Michael
TI  - Ancestral machines
T2  - A humanity's fire novel
SN  - 9780316221184
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Orbit
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Space warfare
KW  - Life on other planets
KW  - Imaginary wars and battles
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Science fiction
N1  - Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Orbit
N2  - "It was named Bringer of Battles, three hundred worlds orbiting a single artificial star, three hundred battlefields where different species vie for mastery and triumph. It is a cage where war is a game -- brutal, savage and sudden. In this arena, all must bend the knee to the Lords of Permutation and the ancient sentient weapons with which they have merged. Or suffer indescribable agonies. Trapped in this draconian crucible of death, Brannan Pyke, captain and smuggler, must fight his way to freedom. Because in the Bringer of Battles, the game of war is played to the death and beyond." --
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