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 capella music, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. Her personal site is at adapalmer.com, and she writes about history for a popular audience at exurbe.com and about SF and fantasy-related matters at Tor.com.
The third book of her Terra Ignota series, The Will to Battle, will be released December 2017.
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 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 "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 "Wonderfull 18th-century style narrative voice....a
richly and highly sophisticated novel that calls for repeated
re-readings." --SFRevu "The eloquence ofPalmer'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 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
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