Abstract Reader reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
Stunning
5 stars
I don't want to spoil anything but please read this book. Combines science fiction, political intrigue and philosophy.
Hardcover, 432 pages
English language
Published Oct. 4, 2016 by Tor Books.
"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.
I don't want to spoil anything but please read this book. Combines science fiction, political intrigue and philosophy.