{"product_id":"too-like-the-lightning-9780765378019","title":"Too Like the Lightning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer''s 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompton Crook Award-winning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epolitical science fiction, \u003ci\u003eToo Like the Lightning, \u003c\/i\u003eventures into a human future of extraordinary originality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 labelling all public writing and  speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly  taboo in mo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404876816727,"sku":"9780765378019","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780765378019.jpg?v=1730487908","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/too-like-the-lightning-9780765378019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}