Trop semblable à l'éclair

, #1

Paperback, 672 pages

French language

Published Oct. 8, 2019 by Le Bélial'.

ISBN:
978-2-84344-958-1
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3 stars (3 reviews)

Année 2454. Trois siècles après des évènements meurtriers ayant remodelé la société, les concepts d’État-nation et de religion organisée ont disparu. Dix milliards d’êtres humains se répartissent ainsi par affinités, au sein de sept Ruches aux ambitions distinctes. Paix, loisirs, prospérité et abondance définissent ce XXVe siècle radieux aux atours d’utopie. Qui repose toutefois sur un équilibre fragile. Et Mycroft Canner le sait mieux que personne… Coupable de crimes atroces, condamné à une servitude perpétuelle mais confident des puissants, il lui faut enquêter sur le vol d’un document crucial : la liste des dix principaux influenceurs mondiaux, dont la publication annuelle ajuste les rapports de force entre les Ruches. Surtout, Mycroft protège un secret propre à tout ébranler : un garçonnet aux pouvoirs uniques, quasi divins. Or, dans un monde ayant banni l’idée même de Dieu, comment accepter la survenue d’un miracle ?

13 editions

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

Too Like the Lightning

2 stars

This is a temporary DNF, and one of my big disappointments of the year. I read to approx. p220, giving up during an extended (and frankly inane) overstuffed dialog sequence.

I like the author. Palmer is intelligent, and passionate about her chosen subjects. I share a stack of the same interests, particularly censorship (she has a couple of great lectures on YouTube about the subject, explaining what censorship regimes really do, how they work, how universally slipshod they are, etc.)

I also like the book's key ideas. My social milieu DOES matter more to me than the country on my birth certificate, and that SHOULD count for something. But I couldn't grok her writing style. It's baroque. Too wordy, too 'mannered'. The framing device she employs is original (a history of events, about which extraneous details are included, like editorial decisions and commentary on people) but I can't help but …

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

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

5 stars

Unique and thoughtful, I enjoyed it a lot.

Reading this book was an amazing an unexpected experience. The reading itself was a pleasure, the writing style unique but reminiscent of so many influences. As a fan of science fiction, I was excited not only for the technological future described, but for the future of ideas that is proposed, all with a multitude of characters which you actually get to know and love or hate or fear. Even if this is only the first half of the story, there is a sense of completeness. Looking forward to complete the cycle.