Too Like the Lightning

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Hardcover, 432 pages

English language

Published Oct. 4, 2016 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-7800-2
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OCLC Number:
918994531

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life..."--Book jacket.

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reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

If you're into philosophy and gender and science fiction, this is a must read.

If you're not into stories where you don't know what is going on, this may not be for you.

By the end of this book, I started to feel like I had a bit of a clue and then it turned out this is only the first of two volumes.

No talking cats or rats, but there are tiny toy soldiers that have been brought to life and they're pretty cool.

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3 stars

Subjects

  • Utopias
  • Prisoners
  • Twenty-fifth century
  • Fiction
  • Third millennium

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