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Ada Palmer

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Bio

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 cappella vocal music on historical themes, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. She writes about history for a popular audience at exurbe.com and about SF and fantasy-related matters at Tor.com. Too Like the Lightning is her debut fiction book.

Ada Palmer Books

Perhaps the Stars book cover

Perhaps the Stars

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Shoreline of Infinity 12 book cover

Shoreline of Infinity 12

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The Will to Battle book cover

The Will to Battle

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Shoreline of Infinity 8½ EIBF Edition book cover

Shoreline of Infinity 8½ EIBF Edition

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Seven Surrenders book cover

Seven Surrenders

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Too Like the Lightning book cover

Too Like the Lightning

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