Pam's review
The Speed of Dark
by Elizabeth Moon
Pam's review
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Pam's review
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A group of autistic staff are "elite" pattern-recognition analysts at a major corporation, sometime in the future. Lou, the protagonist, is a high-functioning autistic & the reader is forced to consider the line between "normal" and "autistic" views of the world. Eventually Lou must choose whether to have experimental surgery that will cure his autism & change his life forever -- or continue on his present course. I felt this book described how autistic people experience the world far more vividly than "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time." Moon is actually a Sci-Fi writer (one of my least fave genres), so this is supposedly not typical of her work. But it IS an excellent novel!
