@booklet {8794, title = {Too Like the Lightning. Terra Ignota, Book I}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {432 pp.}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex novel set in a 25th century technological flawed utopia. Abundance. Much on gender roles. The public practice of religion has been outlawed. Most people belong to world clans that are economic entities in competition with other clans. First volume in a series. The second volume is Seven Surrenders: Terra Ignota, Book II. New York: Tor, 2017. 384 pp. in which certain groups have conspired to maintain stability on the planet through selective murders. The third volume is The Will to Battle: Terra Incognita, Book III. New York: Tor, 2017. 352 pp. in which the utopia has collapsed and turned into a dystopia. The fourth volume is Perhaps the Stars: Terra Ignota, Book IV. New York: Tor, 2021. 593 pp. where war breaks out with devastating consequences, but at the end a better world is slowly being rebuilt. The series has explicitly utopian threads throughout. See https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/notes-on-oaths-and-laws-from-terra-ignota/utopia/ for the Utopian Oath from volume one.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-7653-7801-9 978-0-7653-7803-3 978-0-7653-7805-7 978-0-7653-7807-1 }, author = {Ada [Louise Grace] Palmer (b. 1981)} }