Too Like the Lightning
2 people have this book on the record — 1 of 2 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.
This preamble is very pertinent to Lightning. The best facets of the novel are really good, and the worst parts are really bad.
on putanumonit.com · 21 Apr 2017
This is a deeply impressive effort to take seriously the line that "history is the trade secret of science fiction". That is, Palmer has tried to craft a 25th century which is as strange, as familiar, and as both-at-once-because-that's-not-what-we-meant, as our own time would have seemed to someone from the 17th century.
on bactra.org · 31 May 2016