Too Like the Lightning

A second read, and a second time to be shocked by how good this book is. One of those reads where you can’t quite understand how someone could conceive and then write something this dense and intellectual, whilst also making it readable and compelling. An amazing amalgam of philosophy and science fiction, gender, politics and religion. There’s a moment where the narrator suggest the reader abandon the text based on a revelation they offer, and both times I’ve read it I’ve almost put the book down and walked away. That’s some writing.