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Blurb: MYCROFT CANNER IS A CONVICT. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the twenty-fifth 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 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 twenty-first-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 labeling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions have become distinctly taboo in most social situations. 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.
Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, inanimate objects to life..”