Too Like the Lightning, the first novel in the Terra Ignota series, has received gratifyingly positive reviews, both in mainstream outlets like NPR Books and Romantic Times, and in SF/F venues.

• NPR Review: Science Fiction and Philosophy Collide in Astonishing ‘Lightning’
• Barnes and Noble: The Future is Past in Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning
• Review from Les Chroniques du chroniqueur
• Chicago Review of Books: A Historical Future
• Chicago Tribune review
• Romantic Times: Review of Too Like the Lightning
• Crooked Timber: What’s So Brilliant about Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning
• Guardian review.
• BoingBoing: Too Like the Lightning: intricate worldbuilding, brilliant speculation, gripping storytelling
• Fantasy Faction: Review
• John Clute at Strange Horizons
• Paul Kincaid at Strange Horizons
• Jo Walton on Tor.com: A Future Worth Having
• Liz Bourke on Tor.com: In action how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god.
• A Linguist Tweets Too Like the Lightning
• Brad Horner: Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful
• Book Riot: “Watershed Book”
• Geekly Inc: Not the Best of All Possible Worlds But Close
• Marissa Lingen: Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer
• Nerdophiles: An incredibly unique future
• Positron Chicago: Here, we may use “ambitious” as unqualified praise
• Pudding Shot: Don’t you dare miss this book!
• SF Revu. “one of the truly great works of speculative literature”
• Mirabile Dictu Great Genre Fiction