Dem Blitz zu nah

Paperback

German language

Published Oct. 9, 2021 by Panini Verlags GmbH.

ISBN:
978-3-8332-4097-3
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4 stars (83 reviews)

"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life..."--Book jacket.

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reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I read this book, then took a few weeks away to finish reading the rest of the Hugo nominees in the shorter fiction categories, then came back to read this again. While I enjoyed the book the first time, I was quite overwhelmed trying to learn the world and who all the players were. On this second reading I was able to concentrate more on the story and a lot of details I missed the first time through. I raised my review to 5 stars after this second read for several reasons, but primarily because I was staring in awe at the massive and vivid world that Palmer has created.

reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Under normal circumstances I would never have finished this novel. But it's a 2017 Hugo nominee and I am voting and want to know what for (or not).

The story is set in the 25th century and told by Mycroft Canner, a criminal whose punishment is to be a slave to all of society. Mycroft is writing a history of events that changed his world although in this first book it is never quite said how the world changed, all the reader gets to see is Mycroft's contemporary world and the child Bridger who is going to be the reason for the change. But most of the story revolves around the investigation of a crime in which Bridger plays no role at all, even though Mycroft insists the child is the protagonist.

So this book is at the same time great and not. Great because of the wonderful world-building and …

reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Wonderfully done. I was right, too: While the story is, indeed, excellent, it's eclipsed by the vivid and arresting storytelling itself. Like Danielewski's "House of Leaves," Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," and Miéville's "Perdido Street Station," the delivery transcends the story. I can't wait to read the second book.

reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This was awesome!

I have read some books I loved lately, and I felt completely sated. I just finished the excellent [book:The Quantum Thief|7562764] trilogy. I totally did not want to read yet another excellent sci-fi. [book:Call the Midwife|21288872] was great and I felt no need for another story rich in history and characters.

But what can you do when you are facing an overseas trip with connecting flights and nights alone in a hotel?

Right as I started reading I realized this was not like any other book. I do not think it is possible to be so bored with books that you would find nothing new in Too Like The Lightning. The writing is crazy. The characters are crazy. The story has elements that do not fit in a reasonable story.

As this is the first book of a trilogy, nothing is explained at the end, but …

reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)

Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

The difficulty in discussing a very original book is that that the vocabulary to describe it is missing. I spent a lot of the time I was reading this trying to figure out who to compare it to. In my updates, you'll see a couple of stabs at it, but I'm going with:

[a:Iain M. Banks|5807106|Iain M. Banks|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1352410520p2/5807106.jpg] and [a:Gene Wolfe|23069|Gene Wolfe|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1207670073p2/23069.jpg] and Maybe [a:Jo Walton|107170|Jo Walton|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1353809579p2/107170.jpg] write the Foundation Trilogy. But with pinch of [b:The Vampire Lestat|43814|The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)|Anne Rice|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1347515742s/43814.jpg|3241580].

This doesn't really give you a solid idea what it's like, but it's about as clear as I can get.

This book was not, quite, as they say on the internet, a wild ride from start to finish, but I never managed to know what to expect from it. It kept on becoming something else as I read it.

I also do not know if …

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