Hodor2
Since: Jan, 2015
#2: Jul 7th 2016 at 8:31:24 PM
Thanks for starting the thread/page. Been starting to read this myself.
#3: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:21:33 AM
This book was amazing. My pick for best book of 2016.
Total posts: 3
A sci-fi book series by Ada Palmer about a child that can bring things to life, and all the world-changing that goes along with it. I'm barely a quarter way through, but it's just such a unique and interesting novel that I had to share. One of the interesting things is that the narrator is writing the book as a historical document, so he often explains things he thinks might have changed in the centuries since. Other things take longer, because he assumes that everyone understands already, and they only come up incidentally. Here's the book jacket:
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 labelling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competion is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.
And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...
I made a page for it.