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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780765378002
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-10
0765378000
ISBN-13
9780765378002
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217133750
Product Key Features
Book Title
Too like the Lightning : Book One of Terra Ignota
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Science Fiction / General
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Terra Ignota Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-298981
Reviews
Praise for Book 1 of Terra Ignota, Too Like the Lightning "Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing...It's the best science fiction novel I've read in a long while." --Robert Charles Wilson "More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I can recall...If you read a debut novel this year, make it Too Like the Lightning ." --Cory Doctorow "Astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity."-- RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) "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 "Excellent." --Craig Newmark Praise for Book 2 of Terra Ignota, Seven Surrenders "A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders 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 "A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders 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 "Wonderfull 18th-century style narrative voice....a richly and highly sophisticated novel that calls for repeated re-readings." -- SFRevu "The eloquence ofPalmer's reflections on social issues cannot be denied." -- Library Journal , starred review "Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and plausibly contradictory world." -- RT Book Reviews , 4-1/2 stars "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 "Palmer proves that the boundaries of science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be married together." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Too Like the Lightning: "[An] awe-inspiring debut novel....It's a genius kind of energy, and it's infectious." --NPR on Too Like the Lightning "The best science fiction novel I've read in a long while, and it stands as powerful evidence that the sf genre is still a treasure box overflowing with wonders." --Robert Charles Wilson "This is the kind of science fiction that makes me excited all over again about what science fiction can do. Lots of books can knock you over and leave you reeling and dazzled when you're fifteen, but it takes something special to do the same thing to you at fifty. Too Like The Lightning and its sequels do that, over and over again." --Jo Walton "Thought-provoking, disturbing, occasionally perverted, and always entertaining. Worldbuilding at its richest." -- Kirkus , starred review, on Too Like the Lightning "Palmer has done a brilliant job with the pacing and keeping us in the close confidences of such a charming and deceitful narrator. The book seems like it burst onto the page fully formed. " -- Wired Praise for Seven Surrenders: "Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and plausibly contradictory world." -- RT Book Reviews , 4-1/2 stars "The eloquence of Palmer's reflections on social issues cannot be denied." -- Library Journal , starred review "Many-layered and engrossing." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for Book 1 of Terra Ignota, Too Like the Lightning "Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing...It's the best science fiction novel I've read in a long while." --Robert Charles Wilson "More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I can recall...If you read a debut novel this year, make it Too Like the Lightning ." --Cory Doctorow "Astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity."-- RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) "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 "Excellent." --Craig Newmark Praise for Book 2 of Terra Ignota, Seven Surrenders "A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders 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 "A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders 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 "Wonderfull 18th-century style narrative voice....a richly and highly sophisticated novel that calls for repeated re-readings." -- SFRevu "The eloquence ofPalmer's reflections on social issues cannot be denied." -- Library Journal , starred review "Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and plausibly contradictory world." -- RT Book Reviews , 4-1/2 stars "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 "Palmer proves that the boundaries of science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be married together." -- Publishers Weekly Praise for Book 3 of Terra Ignota, The Will to Battle "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." -- RT Book Reviews, 5 stars "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." -- Washington Book Review "One appreciates the wry humor and the ingenious depth of her worldbuilding. The interplay between reader and narrator is especially enjoyable." -- Publishers Weekly "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." -- Locus "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 Perhaps the Stars." -- SffWorld, Praise for Book 1 of Terra Ignota, Too Like the Lightning "Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing...It's the best science fiction novel I've read in a long while." --Robert Charles Wilson "More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I can recall...If you read a debut novel this year, make it Too Like the Lightning ." --Cory Doctorow "Astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity."-- RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) "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 "Excellent." --Craig Newmark Praise for Book 2 of Terra Ignota, Seven Surrenders "A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders 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 "A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders 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 "Wonderfull 18th-century style narrative voice....a richly and highly sophisticated novel that calls for repeated re-readings." -- SFRevu "The eloquence ofPalmer's reflections on social issues cannot be denied." -- Library Journal , starred review "Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and plausibly contradictory world." -- RT Book Reviews , 4-1/2 stars "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 "Palmer proves that the boundaries of science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be married together." -- Publishers Weekly Praise for Book 3 of Terra Ignota, The Will to Battle "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." -- RT Book Reviews, 5 stars, This is the kind of science fiction that makes me excited all over again about what science fiction can do. Lots of books can knock you over and leave you reeling and dazzled when you're fifteen, but it takes something special to do the same thing to you at fifty. Servants of the World and its sequels do that, over and over again. - Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Jo Walton
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originality 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 competition 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. 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..., The first book of Terra Ignota, a four-book political SF epic set in a human future of extraordinary originality
LC Classification Number
PS3616.A33879T66
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