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Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping journey into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart.
In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed…
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Unlike Corinne Duyvis and Maya MacGregor, Elizabeth Moon is not autistic, but she based this protagonist, Lou Arrendale, on her son, who is on the spectrum. Not only is Lou an excellent and well-realized character, but this book also brilliantly tackles a subject that has long been a point of conversation in the autism community—a cure for autism.
In the book, a cure has been developed, and Lou must take it or risk losing his job. Lou, however, doesn’t want to give up being who he is. This is how most people in the autism community, like myself, view the…
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