Terra Ignota 1-3 - Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer

Category: Novel

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Tags: Novel, Sci-Fi, Adults, Fantasy

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota #1) by Ada Palmer (Goodreads Author) 3.83 Rating details 6,509 ratings 1,400 reviews 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 worlds population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural compe