Too Like the Lightning
by Ada Palmer
Taste attributes: science fictionpoliticalslowfresh & originalimaginaryintricatesurrealglossybig & variedsolving the riddle/not as it seemssocial commentaryfighting evil
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, original science-fiction novel: layered and polished. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: slow · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: very intricate · Structure: surreal · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.6 / 5
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About This Book
"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 labeling all public writing and speech...
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- Author
- Ada Palmer
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 441
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- Open Library
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