Bonus: Ada Palmer talks about Gene Wolfe, his legacy, and The Book of the New Sun
The Ada Palmer Interview
Ada Palmer wrote the introductions to the latest edition of "Shadow & Claw" from Tor, "The Path of the New Sun" as well as to the upcoming "Sword & Citadel." And now she talks to us. Yay!
She is a professor of History at the University of Chicago and a scholar of the Renaissance. Her novel "Too Like the Lightning" was a Hugo Award nominee in 2017, and that year she won the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer.
Links:
* Ada's Website and Terra Ignota series
* Writing the Distant Future of Global Politics by Ada Palmer
Things we talked about:
* Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot
* Phoenix manga series by Osamu Tezuka
* Cesare Beccaria, 18th century Italian criminologist
* Neon Genesis Evangelion anime
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