The Speed of Dark

This is only my second book by Elizabeth Moon, and once again, I found it to be incredible. This book is very different from Remnant Population. It concerns an autistic man in the near future where the disability has been eradicated in utero and in very young children. He is of the last generation of adults with autism. The author has a child with autism and did lots of research on it to get the perspective right. This book is mostly told in first person by the man with only the occasional third person omniscient narration for continuity's sake. This book made me feel the struggles the man faces in the story, about as much as Temple Grandin did in her book. This book has been compared to "Flowers for Algernon" which I read in high school and again in college, but it is vastly different. I thought it was equally as powerful, and much more complex. It won the Nebula Award in 2003 and was nominated for several others.

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