Too Like the Lightning (2016) by Ada PalmerRead about another novel on the list.
One of few modern exponents of utopian fiction, American writer Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning is the first in a quartet of works collectively known as Terra Ignota. The setting for this novel is Earth in the year 2454, a world where advances in technology have led to a golden age of humanity. Geographic nations are no more. People instead have the option of joining one of seven Hives, each of which possesses its own language and government and all of which form part of the Universal Free Alliance Senate. The book is presented as a history written by the colorful Mycroft Canner, a brilliant criminal, now paroled. It contains within it a story of vying powers and a beguiling mystery.
Too Like the Lightning is among Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s eight top contemporary novels with omniscient narrators.
The Page 69 Test: Too Like the Lightning.
--Marshal Zeringue
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