Too Like the Lightning 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

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