Too Like The Lightning (Terra Ignota, 1) by Ada Palmer

Book One of Terra Ignota. Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required , as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being useful to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counsellor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be washed away. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle to us may seem like a mad combination of heaven and hell, to them it seems like normal life. 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...

Ada Palmer, 2016

Paperback, Very Good

448 pages

485g

23.4 x 15.6 x 3.2 cm