{"product_id":"too-like-the-lightning-book-one-of-terra-ignota-paperback","title":"Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAda Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerra Ignota\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eADA PALMER is a professor in the history department of the University of Chicago, specializing in Renaissance history and the history of ideas. Her first nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eReading Lucretius in the Renaissance, \u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. She is also a composer of folk and Renaissance-tinged \u003ci\u003ea capella\u003c\/i\u003e music, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. Her personal site is at adapalmer.com, and she writes about history for a popular audience at exurbe.com and about SF and fantasy-related matters at Tor.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe third book of her Terra Ignota series, \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Battle\u003c\/i\u003e, will be released December 2017.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44303978430566,"sku":"9780765378019","price":29.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/OVJOSHRCWnpOc3l1ZnJZUWRjSm9SUT09.webp?v=1767581723","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/too-like-the-lightning-book-one-of-terra-ignota-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}