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What is Too Like the Lightning about?

The year is 2454. Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age , forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion and nation state from the planet. Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world, their rule fuelled by benign censorship, oracular statistical analytics and technological abundance. But this is a fragile Utopia – and someone is intent on pushing it to breaking point. Convicted for his crimes , celebrated for his talents, Mycroft Canner is the indentured instrument – and confidant – of some of the world's most powerful figures . When he is asked to investigate a bizarre theft, he finds himself on the trail of a conspiracy that could shatter the tranquil world order the Hives have maintained for three centuries. But Mycroft has his own secrets . He is concealing a much greater threat to the seven Hives, a wild card no degree of statistical analysis could have prophesied. This threat takes the unlikely form of a thirteen-year-old called Bridger. For how will a world that has banished God deal with a child who can perform miracles?

Author

Ada Palmer

Publisher

Head of Zeus Ltd.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786699503

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction

Rating

3.53 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24