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Too Like the Lightning
by Ada Palmer
The Age of Reason celebrated the possibility that science would improve the human condition generation by generation; Rousseau agreed, but cried that this would only make us wretched by pushing us further from the Noble Savage’s lost tranquility.
I don't know how to describe this book. The blurb doesn't begin to cover it.
It's an amalgamation that draws on philosophy as much as science and the Enlightenment as much as Star Trek. It reminded me of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; it reminded me of the works of John LeCarré.
It took me a while to get into it and I have no idea who I'd recommend this to, but I've got to read the sequel.
I don't know how to describe this book. The blurb doesn't begin to cover it.
It's an amalgamation that draws on philosophy as much as science and the Enlightenment as much as Star Trek. It reminded me of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; it reminded me of the works of John LeCarré.
It took me a while to get into it and I have no idea who I'd recommend this to, but I've got to read the sequel.