Too Like the Lightning

About “Too Like the Lightning”

The science fiction novel by Ada Palmer follows Mycroft and Carlyle in a world that is unfamiliar to 21st-century readers. This society is a utopia achieved through technological abundance and strict systems that label all public writing and speech. Mycroft and Carlyle discover a boy named Bridger, who has the ability to make his wishes come true and can bring inanimate objects to life. This discovery presents a challenge to the established system.