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SUMMARY:TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING - ADA PALMER - HUGO AWARD NOMINEE
DESCRIPTION: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 a
 s he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counse
 llor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion\, but wh
 ich also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.\n\nTh
 e 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 com
 plex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech. Wha
 t seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most s
 ocial situations. And most of the world`s population is affiliated with gl
 obe-girdling clans of the like-minded\, whose endless economic and cultura
 l competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subt
 lety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them\, 
 it seems like normal life.\n\nAnd in this world\, Mycroft and Carlyle have
  stumbled on the wild card that may destabilise the system: the boy Bridge
 r\, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can\, it would see
 m\, bring inanimate objects to life...\n\n"...When it comes to reviewing a
 nd recommending Too Like the Lightning\, I’m reduced to babbling about t
 he effect it has on me." ~ Joe Walton on Tor.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaperback co
 pies are available at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore for £10.99\n\
 nForbidden Planet London Megastore\n179 Shaftesbury Ave\, London WC2H 8JR\
 n020 7420 3666
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Hugo Award Nominee
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