Sci-Fi Book Club - Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (February 20th)
Schedule
Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
125 Broadway, Hanover, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17331 | Hanover, PA
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Welcome to our Little Fox Sci-Fi Book Club !! Each month we read a book and then meet monthly to discuss this month's book! New members are always welcome. All of our book clubs are very low key - with a goal of creating community and connecting with others that have a love of reading. RSVP to reserve your spot as space is limited to 12 people. You can pick up a copy of this month's book at the bookshop or order it online from our bookshop.org storefront!
Book Description:
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.
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 competition 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 destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...
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