Ada Palmer
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Series
Terra Ignota volume 1
Language
English
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"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech... And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes...
Author
Series
Terra Ignota volume 2
Language
English
Description
"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war. In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion--but ecumenical "sensayers" minister in private, one-on-one. In which gendered language is archaic, and to dress as strongly male or female is, if not exactly...
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Series
Terra Ignota volume 3
Language
English
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The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world's stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So...
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Terra Ignota volume 4
Language
English
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"The leaders of the Hive nations--nations without fixed locations, now the default arrangement of humanity on Earth--clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the fac̦ade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All that was needed...
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English
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In this issue
Ada Palmer interview
Stories from:
Helen Jackson -Do Not Pass GO
Robert Gordon -Aeaea
Anton Rose -Jammers
J S Richardson -Paradise Bird
W G White -Sand and Rust
Elva Hills -Sleeping Fire
Duncan Lunan -The Square Fella
SF Poetry: Caroline Hardaker, Ken Poyner, Elizabeth Dulemba
Chris Kelso -SF Caledonia: Crossing the Starfield
Ruth EJ Booth -Noise and Sparks: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Genre
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Series
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English
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The second full cast audiobook of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity! In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost...
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English
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From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originality Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a spiritual counselor in a world that...
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Series
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English
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From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originality. Adapted and produced by GraphicAudio with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music! Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world...
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Publisher
Tor Essentials, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.
The Citadel of Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known...
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Publisher
Uncanny Magazine
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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The May/June 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Arkady Martine, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Emma Törzs, A.T. Greenblatt, Meg Elison, and Suzanne Walker. Reprint fiction by Sonya Taaffe. Essays by Fran Wilde, Kelly Lagor, Khairani Barokka, and Ada Palmer, poetry by Valerie Valdes, Ali Trotta, Roshani Chokshi, and T.K. Lê, interviews with Emma Törzs and Meg Elison by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by
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