Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
essay collection · First published 2026
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Author guide
Ada Palmer Books in Order
Ada Palmer is an American historian and novelist who teaches early modern European history at the University of Chicago. Her work spans Renaissance intellectual history, science fiction, fantasy, mythology, and the relationship between historical ideas and imagined futures. She is the author of the Terra Ignota novels and several scholarly and popular nonfiction books.
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Ada Palmer's Newest Book
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Too Like the Lightning
The first novel in the complete Terra Ignota series and Ada Palmer's fiction debut.
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
A representative entry point to Palmer's scholarly nonfiction.
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Books by series
novel series · complete
Terra Ignota
A four-volume science-fiction series set in a future where geographic nations have been replaced by global Hives.
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Book 1 · novel · 2027
Outside the series
