{"product_id":"too-like-the-lightning-by-ada-palmer","title":"Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer","description":"\u003ch2 data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"118\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eA bold and brilliant vision of the 25th century\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"481\"\u003eGood Condition – ex-library copy with library stamps and stickers present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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 labeling 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"809\" data-end=\"1030\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"809\" data-end=\"834\"\u003eTerra Ignota – Book I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"872\"\u003eFirst published in the US in 2016\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"920\"\u003eUK edition published by Head of Zeus (2017)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"945\"\u003eSet in the year 2454\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"946\" data-end=\"1003\"\u003eRich political, philosophical, and speculative themes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1004\" data-end=\"1030\"\u003eRed ribbon page marker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The Value Junction ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47544335990996,"sku":"TVJ-016868","price":17.25,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/3059\/2980\/files\/IMG_6032_ac1bf5f7-65eb-4fd8-baca-a2f12446a950.jpg?v=1770872886","url":"https:\/\/thevaluejunction.co.nz\/products\/too-like-the-lightning-by-ada-palmer","provider":"The Value Junction ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}