Too Like the Lightning Blog Tour
As Too Like the Lightning approached its publication date, advance word of this fierce and brilliant novel leaked out into the SF/F community. Ada was interviewed by numerous on-line publications, and was invited to contribute essays or commentary to others.
- The Setup: Ada Palmer
- What is Ada reading?
- Interview at Scientific American
- Interview with Marissa Lingen
- The Page 69 Test
- The Kitchen Tree: Fran Wilde’s Cooking the Books (Podcast)
- Sci Fi Chick: Terra Ignota, a World of Diaspora
- Fantasy Book Critic: Writing in a different question palette
- The Quillery: Interview
- Interview on Inverse: Historical novels from the future
- Whatever (John Scalzi’s Blog): The Big Idea, Too Like the Lightning
- BiblioSanctum: In Terra Ignota, Diaspora Becomes Nations Without Borders
- Tor/Forge Blog: World Building Like a Historian (Terra Ignota)
- SF Signal: Middle Future Science Fiction (Terra Ignota)
- Locus Online: World Building and Change in Terra Ignota
- My Bookish Ways: Q&A with Ada Palmer about Too Like the Lightning
- SF Revu: “One of the truly great works of speculative literature”
Guest Blog Posts:
- Fast Forward Interview
- Interview at The Future Fire
- The Future of the Olympics: Huffington Post
- The Setup: Ada Palmer
- What is Ada reading?
- Interview at Scientific American
- Interview with Marissa Lingen
- The Page 69 Test
- The Kitchen Tree: Fran Wilde’s Cooking the Books (Podcast)
- Sci Fi Chick: Terra Ignota, a World of Diaspora
- Fantasy Book Critic: Writing in a different question palette
- The Quillery: Interview
- Interview on Inverse: Historical novels from the future
- Whatever (John Scalzi’s Blog): The Big Idea, Too Like the Lightning
- BiblioSanctum: In Terra Ignota, Diaspora Becomes Nations Without Borders
- Tor/Forge Blog: World Building Like a Historian (Terra Ignota)
- SF Signal: Middle Future Science Fiction (Terra Ignota)
- Locus Online: World Building and Change in Terra Ignota
- My Bookish Ways: Q&A with Ada Palmer about Too Like the Lightning
- Cover Reveal: “Being Useful is Your Punishment – Revealing Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer,” Tor.com
- Podcasts associated with the Too Like the Lightning blog tour:
Seven Surrenders Blog Tour
Guest Blog Posts:
- Queership: Deep into Gender in Terra Ignota (series)
- Tor/Forge Blog: What the Future Will Call This Era
- Tor.com: Writing a Future in which You Choose Your Nation
- Barnes & Noble: How to Build a Future History, with Ada Palmer
Terra Ignota Crooked Timber Seminar:
- The Seminar Begins (Participant list)
- “Complicity and the Reader” by Jo Walton
- “De Sade, war, civil society” by Henry Farrell
- “Future’s Past” by Neville Morley
- “The Old Dragon But Slept: Terra Ignota, the Sensayer System, and Faith” by Max Gladstone
- Ada Palmer’s Great Conversation by Lee Constantinou
- Heroes and Aliens by John Holbo
- In Good Hands by Maria Farrell
- Gods of this Fictional Universe by Belle Waring
- Falling Into the Cracks of Identity by Ruthanna Emrys
Podcasts & Interviews:
- Clarkesworld Interview: Enlightenment Voices and Norse Acapella
- The Future of Science Fiction is Not American: interview with David Perry, at UChicago Mag
- Dungeon Crawlers Radio Seven Surrenders
- Functional Nerds Podcast
- Video Interview with Chris Rhodes
- Ada talking about Mycroft
- Chicago Maroon Interview
- Clarkesworld Interview
- Fantasy Faction: Interview
- Functional Nerds Podcast
- Hong Kong Talk
- Interview with David Perry
- Interview with Fantástica – Ficción (in Spanish)
- Interview with Sandusky Register
- Just a World Away: Interview
- Metamor City Podcast
- Secret Library Podcast
- Tethered By Letters interview
- Unreliable Narrators Podcast
- Video interview with Chris Rhodes
- Youtube Interview about Seven Surrenders