{"product_id":"9780765378019","title":"Too Like the Lightning : Book One of Terra Ignota","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eToo Like the Lightning\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Ada Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompton Crook Award-winning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epolitical science fiction, \u003ci\u003eToo Like the Lightning, \u003c\/i\u003eventures into a human future of extraordinary originality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMycroft 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  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 combination of  heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may  destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his  wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to  life...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eTerra Ignota\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eToo Like the Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003ci\u003eSeven Surrenders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Battle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Book 1 of Terra Ignota, \u003ci\u003eToo Like the Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing…It’s the best science fiction novel I've read in a long while.” —Robert Charles Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I can recall…If you read a debut novel this year, make it \u003ci\u003eToo Like the Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e.” —Cory Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity.”—\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (Top Pick)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Terra Ignota books are is the kind of science fiction that makes me excited all over again about what science fiction can do.” —Jo Walton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Excellent.” —Craig Newmark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Book 2 of Terra Ignota, \u003ci\u003eSeven Surrenders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner,\u003ci\u003e Seven Surrenders\u003c\/i\u003e veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics.  I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time.” —Max Gladstone \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner,\u003ci\u003e Seven Surrenders\u003c\/i\u003e veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics.  I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time.” —Max Gladstone \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderfull 18th-century style narrative voice....a richly and highly sophisticated novel that calls for repeated re-readings.\" —\u003ci\u003eSFRevu \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The eloquence ofPalmer's reflections on social issues cannot be denied.\" —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and plausibly contradictory world.\" —\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 4-1\/2 stars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Devastatingly accomplished…An arch and playful narrative that combines the conscious irreverence of the best of 18th-century philosophy with the high-octane heat of an epic science fiction thriller.” —Liz Bourke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Palmer proves that the boundaries of science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be married together.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Book 3 of Terra Ignota, \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Battle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"It is increasingly clear that we are in the hands of a new master of the genre....There's a resonance and richness to the Terra Ignota series that is like almost nothing else being written today.\" —\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003e5 stars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Innovative, mesmerizing and full of fun. Ada Palmer lets her imagination weave a truly great political science story in an imagined world – full of lessons from real-world history.\" —\u003ci\u003eWashington Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One appreciates the wry humor and the ingenious depth of her worldbuilding. The interplay between reader and narrator is especially enjoyable.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Any reader who has ever thrilled to the intricate machinations of the Dune books, or the Instrumentality tales of Cordwainer Smith, or the sensual, tactile, lived-in futures of Delany or M. John Harrison... will enjoy the mental and emotional workout offered by Palmer’s challenging Terra Ignota cycle.\" —\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This series is one the best things that has happened to science fiction in the 21st Century and I can’t hardly wait to see where Ada Palmer is going to take us with \u003ci\u003ePerhaps the Stars.\" \u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSffWorld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Boing Boing Gift Guide (2016), Nominated Goodreads Choice Awards (2016), Long-listed James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honor List (2016), Short-listed Hugo Award - Nominee (2017)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780765378019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40619742003406,"sku":"9780765378019","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f2cbe5f8-1a5c-4bb5-bc87-9572e83f402d.jpg?v=1644919366","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780765378019","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}