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Ada Palmer

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Ada Palmer is a historian and novelist whose work explores progress, censorship, atheism, radical thought, and the ways societies construct their own historical narratives. She teaches at the University of Chicago and is known both for Inventing the Renaissance, a provocative reexamination of the period’s mythology, and the award-winning Terra Ignota science fiction series. Her writing combines deep scholarship with ambitious speculative ideas about politics, power, and the future.

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Terra Ignota


A Science Fiction series (2016 - 2021)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Radical future societies built on taboo and hidden rules
  • Philosophical political intrigue with unreliable narrators
  • Utopias cracking into war under secretive power structures

Standalone Fiction

And Loki in His Prison

Standalone Non-fiction

Inventing the Renaissance

Trace Elements

Little Stacks of Science Fiction

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