Ada Palmer

Too Like the Lightning

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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 labelling 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 competion is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad…
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615 printed pages
Copyright owner
Head of Zeus
Publication year
2017
Publisher
Head of Zeus
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  • Наталия Немкинаhas quoted2 years ago
    Sidney Koons, Kat and Robin Typer, and Ojiro Sniper.”

    “Nine-and-a-half counting Mycroft.”

    Martin smiled. “Any other frequent guests?”

    “Our regular guards and maintenance people, plus Kat or Robin bring a revolving array of dates home, Thisbe sometimes too. I’ll send you a list of recents.”

    We reached the fatal spot. “Here it is, Nepos. Untouched, just as ordered.” I showed Martin the trash bin beneath a corner cabinet, where the paper marked with kanji protruded
  • Наталия Немкинаhas quoted2 years ago
    el paths, like fresh-combed hair, while the great cities bristled with so many crisscrossing journeys that Earth seemed to bleed light. Each car’s position en route was visible like a knot in the thread, crawling forward as the seconds crawled, so the whole mass scintillated like the dust of broken glass. The display is
  • Наталия Немкинаhas quoted2 years ago
    one, without Providence behind it, would have sent this child, in this moment, so suitable a guide?

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