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Historian and novelist Ada Palmer studies progress, censorship, atheism & radical thought, and teaches at the University of Chicago. Her new book Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age is a playful and irreverent look at the propaganda behind the myth of a bad Middle Ages & golden Renaissance, a story partly about the days of Machiavelli and the Medici, but equally about later centuries’ projects to repurpose the myth for their own ends. Her internationally award-winning science fiction novel series Terra Ignota (vol 1 Too Like the Lightning) depicts a twenty-fifth century in which mystery and corruption shake the globalized successors to the nation-state.

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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 Non-fiction

Inventing the Renaissance

Trace Elements

Little Stacks of Science Fiction

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