I've read them and like them a lot. It takes a while to figure out what's going on and there are lots of surprises. I've also posted many articles from her blog here. Unfortunately she doesn't...
I've read them and like them a lot. It takes a while to figure out what's going on and there are lots of surprises.
Really dense SF that doesn't handhold you. I enjoyed Too Like the Lightning quite a bit, but it was definitely "work" because the author was so good at building a very complex foreign society. Ann...
Really dense SF that doesn't handhold you. I enjoyed Too Like the Lightning quite a bit, but it was definitely "work" because the author was so good at building a very complex foreign society. Ann Leckie or Arkady Martine strike me as similar but I found Too Light the Lightning drier and less inclined to explain itself.
I did not go on from the first book probably because of the headspace I was in at the time more than anything. I really should give it another go
Thank you for posting - I thought she was really interesting to listen to and will have to read some more of her writing. I will note that I was a bit ruffled by the interviewer, the questions...
Thank you for posting - I thought she was really interesting to listen to and will have to read some more of her writing. I will note that I was a bit ruffled by the interviewer, the questions seemed to bounce from one subject to another and he seemed to interrupt the speaker while she was still talking on one subject to ask a question about something else. I appreciated some of the questions he asked just for the answers that they ended up encouraging, but just have some quibbles with the style.
Ada Palmer is a Renaissance historian at the University of Chicago who studies radical free thought and censorship, composes music, consults on anime and manga, and is the author of the acclaimed Terra Ignota sci-fi series, among many other things.
Tyler sat down with Ada to discuss why living in the Renaissance was worse than living during the Middle Ages, how art protected Florence, why she’s reluctant to travel back in time, which method of doing history is currently the most underrated, whose biography she’ll write, how we know what old Norse music was like, why women scholars helped us understand Viking metaphysics, why Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist is an interesting work, what people misunderstand about the inquisition(s), why science fiction doesn’t have higher social and literary status, which hive she would belong to in Terra Ignota, what the new novel she’s writing is about, and more.
Wow, this is fascinating! Somehow I've never heard of her. Her books sound right up my alley; any comments from anyone who's read any?
I've read them and like them a lot. It takes a while to figure out what's going on and there are lots of surprises.
I've also posted many articles from her blog here. Unfortunately she doesn't blog frequently anymore, but what's there is very good.
Thanks. Her blog looks interesting too, I'll have to check that out too
Really dense SF that doesn't handhold you. I enjoyed Too Like the Lightning quite a bit, but it was definitely "work" because the author was so good at building a very complex foreign society. Ann Leckie or Arkady Martine strike me as similar but I found Too Light the Lightning drier and less inclined to explain itself.
I did not go on from the first book probably because of the headspace I was in at the time more than anything. I really should give it another go
Thanks. Yeah I understand what you mean about density --- some books are impossible to enjoy if you're not in the right headspace
Thank you for posting - I thought she was really interesting to listen to and will have to read some more of her writing. I will note that I was a bit ruffled by the interviewer, the questions seemed to bounce from one subject to another and he seemed to interrupt the speaker while she was still talking on one subject to ask a question about something else. I appreciated some of the questions he asked just for the answers that they ended up encouraging, but just have some quibbles with the style.
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