Too Like the Lightning

Set in the year 2454, this novel presents a utopian society of global prosperity and technological abundance, where social order is maintained through mandatory, complex systems of labeling public speech and writing. The narrative follows Mycroft and Carlyle, two young people navigating this rigidly structured world, until they encounter Bridger, a boy with the unsettling ability to bring inanimate objects to life. This discovery threatens to destabilize the established equilibrium, forcing the characters to confront the philosophical and political foundations of their society.

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