MAJOR: Yes. We’re plastic toy soldiers. Bridger fished us from the trash and brought us to life, but we had a run-in with a cat today, and at our scale any cat may as well be the Nemean Lion. Pointer fought like a hero, but heroes die.
#TooLikeTheLightning
cover art for Ada Palmer's speculative fiction novel Too Like the Lightning
I think there's no person so hated by the ambitious of this world as Bryar Kosala, since those who fight viciously to grasp the reins of power can't forgive that she could rise so high & still be nice. She likes helping & is good at running things.
#TooLikeTheLightning
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I think that #TooLikeTheLightning might be one of the most unique visions of the future that I've come across in science fiction for a while now... dense, thought-provoking, and interesting, I will definitely be reading the rest of this series.
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