The Speed of Dark

By Elizabeth Moon
(Ballantine Books, Paperback, 9780345447548, 368pp.)

Publication Date: March 2, 2004

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Elizabeth Moon is a native Texan who grew up two hundred and fifty miles south of San Antonio. After earning a degree in history from Rice University, she spent three years in the Marine Corps, then earned a degree in Biology from the University of Texas, Austin. She is intimately acquainted with autism, through the raising of an autistic son, now a teenager. She lives in Florence, Texas.

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“Splendid and graceful . . . A lot of novels promise to change the way a reader sees the world; The Speed of Dark actually does.”
—The Washington Post Book World

“[A] BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING STORY . . . Moon is the mother of an autistic teenager and her love is apparent in the story of Lou. He makes a deep and lasting impact on the reader while showing a different way of looking at the world.”
—The Denver Post

“Every once in a while, you come across a book that is both an important literary achievement and A COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY ABSORBING READING EXPERIENCE—a book with provocative ideas and an equally compelling story. Such a book is The Speed of Dark.”
—Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

“A REMARKABLE JOURNEY . . . [that] takes us into the mind of an autistic with a terrible choice: become normal or remain an alien on his own planet.”
—MARY DORIA RUSSELL
Author of The Sparrow

“A POWERFUL PORTRAIT . . . AN ENGAGING JOURNEY INTO THE DARK EDGES THAT DEFINE THE SELF.”
—The Seattle Times