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Ada Palmer

Author, Historian, Musician

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  • About
    • About Ada
    • Press Bios
    • Press Photos
  • Areas of Expertise
    • Historian
    • SF/F Fiction Author
    • Composer
    • Manga & Anime Consultant
  • Publications
    • Fiction
    • History
    • Music
    • Manga Studies
  • Blog (Ex Urbe)
  • Events
    • Upcoming
    • Event Archive
  • On the Web
    • Essays, Op-Eds, Interviews
    • Personal Pages
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Boskone 2014, my first public appearance as a forthcoming author, on a panel on storytelling, with my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and fellow authors Deborah Doyle, Michael Swanwick, and Jo Walton
Boskone 2014, my first public appearance as a forthcoming author, a panel on storytelling, with my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and fellow authors Deborah Doyle, Michael Swanwick, & Jo Walton

Personal Pages:

  • Blog (ExUrbe.com)
  • History Department Faculty Page
  • Tor.com Pieces
  • Amazon.com Author Page
  • Academia.edu
  • Facebook
  • Twitter (Ada_Palmer)
  • Goodreads Author Page
  • Project Muse
  • Google+
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  • Kickstarters: Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok and Stories & Stone

About Ada Palmer

 

All my projects stem from my overall interest in the relationship between ideas and historical change.  Our fundamental convictions about what is true evolve over time, so different human peoples in different times and places have, from their own perspectives, lived in radically different worlds with radically different rules.

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External Links

  • My Blog: Ex Urbe
  • My Podcast: Ex Urbe Ad Astra
  • My History Department Faculty Page
  • My Music: Bandcamp Store
  • My Posts on Tor.com
  • Tezuka in English (manga criticism)
  • My Amazon Author Page
  • Visit UnusualFrequency for Terra Ignota merchandise

Favorite Ex Urbe Blog Posts

  • On Progress and Historical Change
  • Machiavelli Series: S.P.Q.F.
  • The Shape of Rome
  • Sketches of a History of Skepticism
  • “The Borgias” vs. “Borgia: Faith and Fear” (accuracy in historical fiction)
  • Gelato Atlas
  • How to Spot Good Gelato

Recent Tor.com Posts

  • A Mitfreude of Anime & Manga’s Relationship with Anglophone Science Fiction (or, This Essay WILL NOT Try to Get You into Anime and Manga)
  • Chronicling Japanese Folklore: The Ghosts and Monsters of Shigeru Mizuki
  • Writing the Distant Future of Global Politics
  • When Less Plot is More Play: Love’s Labour’s Lost vs. Pericles Prince of Tyre
  • Shakespeare in the age of Netflix, a review of the BBC Hollow Crown adaptation of the Henriad
  • How Pacing Makes History into Story: Shakespeare’s Histories and The White Queen
  • Japan’s Folklore Chronicler Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015)

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Other Sites:

  • Ex Urbe Blog
  • My Music: Sassafrass
  • Buy My Music: Bandcamp

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"Warm, generous, and inviting," Inventing the Renaissance provides a witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the supposed Dark Ages and golden Renaissance, and exposes the terrible yet often tender reality beneath.