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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 History Department Faculty Page
  • My Posts on Tor.com
  • My Music: Sassafrass Website
  • My Music: Bandcamp Store
  • Tezuka in English (manga criticism)
  • Vericon Charity Auction

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

  • 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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  • Buy My Music: Bandcamp

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