Books by Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series (Tor Books) explores a future of borderless nations and globally commixing populations. The first volume, Too Like the Lightning, was a Best Novel Hugo finalist, and won the Compton Crook Award, while Ada received the Campbell Award. Terra Ignota was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series. She teaches history at the University of Chicago, studying the Renaissance, Enlightenment, heresy, atheism, and censorship. She composes music including the Viking mythology cycle Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok, and performs with the group Sassafrass. She studies anime/manga, especially Osamu Tezuka, post-WWII manga and feminist manga, and consults for anime and manga publishers. She blogs and podcasts at ExUrbe.com.
“In the Terra Ignota system, when you come of age, you choose which of eleven-ish options for a government and legal system and philosophy of law you want to sign up for. Then you are governed by that, and your next-door neighbour or your spouse or your roommate or your siblings might have chosen a different one. Each of them governs their own citizens’ actions, and protects their own citizens.” Read more...
Ada Palmer, Novelist
Interviews with Ada Palmer
The Best Sci-Fi Book Series, recommended by Ada Palmer
A series gives a sci fi writer time to develop powerfully layered worlds, says award-winning author and historian Ada Palmer. She talks us through five series that make the most of this complexity, and envision worlds ranging from lunar anarchist settlements to a real-life Plato’s Republic.
Interviews where books by Ada Palmer were recommended
The Best Sci-Fi Book Series, recommended by Ada Palmer
A series gives a sci fi writer time to develop powerfully layered worlds, says award-winning author and historian Ada Palmer. She talks us through five series that make the most of this complexity, and envision worlds ranging from lunar anarchist settlements to a real-life Plato’s Republic.
