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A review by anemone42
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
5.0
This book loosely resembles The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in that they both have narrators with autism, but there they diverge. The narrator of The Speed of Dark is Lou Arrendale, a man living in the near future when major developments have been made in treating individuals with autism. His work group consists entirely of people with autism. The group splinters when a new manager at the company learns of an experimental treatment that could cure autism, and demands that all the employees with autism participate.
In Lou's struggle to avoid being compelled to be treated, major questions of ethics are raised. Even deeper, however, are more basic questions: if a person has always had an illness, a difference, who are they without that? If my depression were erased tomorrow, I don't know who I would be. Lou faces the same sort of void--the complete unknown.
In Lou's struggle to avoid being compelled to be treated, major questions of ethics are raised. Even deeper, however, are more basic questions: if a person has always had an illness, a difference, who are they without that? If my depression were erased tomorrow, I don't know who I would be. Lou faces the same sort of void--the complete unknown.