ADA PALMER is a professor in the history department of the University of Chicago, specializing in Renaissance history and the history of ideas. Her first nonfiction book, Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance, was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. She is also a composer of folk and Renaissance-tinged a cappella music, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. Ada is the author of the Terra Ignota series, including Too Like the Lightning, Seven Surrenders, and The Will to Battle
Praise for Book 3 of Terra Ignota, The Will to Battle It is
increasingly clear that we are in the hands of a new master of the
genre....There's a resonance and richness to the Terra Ignota
series that is like almost nothing else being written today. --RT
Book Reviews, 5 stars Innovative, mesmerizing and full of fun. Ada
Palmer lets her imagination weave a truly great political science
story in an imagined world - full of lessons from real-world
history. --Washington Book Review
One appreciates the wry humor and the ingenious depth of her
worldbuilding. The interplay between reader and narrator is
especially enjoyable. --Publishers Weekly
Any reader who has ever thrilled to the intricate machinations of
the Dune books, or the Instrumentality tales of Cordwainer Smith,
or the sensual, tactile, lived-in futures of Delany or M. John
Harrison... will enjoy the mental and emotional workout offered by
Palmer's challenging Terra Ignota cycle. --Locus This series is one
the best things that has happened to science fiction in the 21st
Century and I can't hardly wait to see where Ada Palmer is going to
take us with Perhaps the Stars. --SffWorld
Praise for Book 2 of Terra Ignota, Seven Surrenders
"A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven
Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood,
theology, and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a
book in a long time." --Max Gladstone Wonderful 18th-century style
narrative voice....a richly and highly sophisticated novel that
calls for repeated re-readings. --SFRevu The eloquence of Palmer's
reflections on social issues cannot be denied. --Library Journal,
starred review Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative
voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and
plausibly contradictory world. --RT Book Reviews, 4-1/2 stars
"Devastatingly accomplished...An arch and playful narrative that
combines the conscious irreverence of the best of 18th-century
philosophy with the high-octane heat of an epic science fiction
thriller." --Liz Bourke "Palmer proves that the boundaries of
science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be
married together." --Publishers Weekly Praise for Book 1 of Terra
Ignota, Too Like the Lightning
"Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing...It's the best science
fiction novel I've read in a long while." --Robert Charles Wilson
"More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I
can recall...If you read a debut novel this year, make it Too Like
the Lightning." --Cory Doctorow "Astonishingly dense, accomplished
and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its
strangeness and its familiarity."--RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) The
Terra Ignota books are is the kind of science fiction that makes me
excited all over again about what science fiction can do." --Jo
Walton "Excellent." --Craig Newmark
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