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. 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. Now what do I do with TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING? Let’s start with a synopsis. It has some of the same sense of wonder that 2001 has and it’s a really great, thought-provoking movie.” Then they go see it and they love it. However if someone asked me what I thought and I said, “It was so good, you have to see it,” and then they go and see the movie expecting maybe an action movie like Star Wars or Independence Day they would be really disappointed. I recently went and saw the movie The Arrival. If you, my dear reader, have read that same book and have similar feelings about it, then you know you can take my advice seriously. I tell you about a book and I reference it to another book that I’ve read. The way that I generally go about reviewing books is mostly based on comparison. And yet in all of that, I’ve never read a novel quite like TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING by Ada Palmer.Īnd this is a big problem for me.
So when I say I’ve read a lot of Science Fiction, I really mean it. I’ve gone back and read almost all of the Hugo award-winning novels and I’ve read all of the Hugo nominees of the past 10 years, as well.
I’ve read first contact stories, and stuff that feels more like it’s at home in Fantasy than Sci-fi. I’ve read big, fat hard science fiction stories and I’ve read quick, lite page turner actioners. You know, I’ve read quite a bit of Science Fiction in my time. I’ve read near-future thrillers, and I’ve read far-future alien stories.
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