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Terra Ignota

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“The eloquence of Palmer’s reflections on social issues cannot be denied.” —Library Journal, starred review, on Seven Surrenders

“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, on Seven Surrenders

“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

“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 on Too Like the Lightning

About the Author

Ada Palmer (she/her) 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 vocal music on historical themes, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. She writes about history for a popular audience at exurbe.com and about SF and fantasy-related matters at Tor.com. Too Like the Lightning was her debut fiction book.

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