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Too Like the Lightning

Terra Ignota, Book 1

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Too Like the Lightning

Yazan: Ada Palmer
Seslendiren: Jefferson Mays
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Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets.

Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

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. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.

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.

©2016 Ada Palmer (P)2016 Recorded Books Dystopian Genre Fiction Kurgu Political Science Fiction
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A little too dense for my liking, too much leaning on the 18th century style of intrigue. With so many characters and "families" to keep track of it was a bit like trying to remember Tolstoy's ovs

Complex intrigue

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fascinating style of writing, original world building, interesting characters, deep philosophical questions, has to be re read to understand

Incredible! like nothing I've ever read

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I've listened to it twice at this point. There's so much detail and so many layers to penetrate but to me it felt like embarking on some exciting, thrilling, unpredictable adventure again when I read second time. 'Mycroft Kanner, Ockham Syneer, Prince Ganymede, The Anonymous, JEDD Mason.....' What breadth of imagination from Ada Palmer!! One of the best I've ever listened to. Excellent narrator.
Can hardly wait for book two. Fourth wall, thou hast no place here!

Outrageously brilliant in scope, invention, innovation, language, characters etc etc.

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Aside from Book of the New Sun this is my favourite book. The voice actor is fine.

Outstanding.

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Story, writing and performance are excellent. Takes a couple of chapters to get the hang of the names, but so worth it.

Exquisite

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