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 originalityMycroft 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 spiritu...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARDA New Yorker Best Book of 2025An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and rebirth. Hogwash! or so says award-winning novelist and historian A...

She Understood Her BodyDesire this certain takes time to learn.Five stories of women who know exactly what they want, and create the conditions to have it: a long-planned evening of surrender between two women who have negotiated every detail. A half-asleep beginning that becomes something deliberate and undeniable. A morning-after in a New York apartment where a supper club guest is still in the bed. A chance encounter on a Mediterranean shore with a Frenc...

Between the Sheets and AfterSome nights change everything that comes after.Five stories built around the moment desire stops being theoretical: a first impression that turns into something pinned against a wall, wordless and certain. A weekend golf trip where Sunday dinner was always going to end one way. A guest room door left slightly open, and the woman watching from the hallway who cannot bring herself to walk away. A New Year's kiss that was supposed t...

The Taste of HerFirst times are not always with strangers.Five stories about women crossing a threshold: into desire they have carried quietly for years, into a connection that arrives without warning, into the particular heat of being with another woman for the first time. These are not stories about confusion. They are stories about clarity.A college roommate who learns sign language and something else entirely. A seduction that burns through ever...

She Came Apart in Her HandsSome pleasures arrive without warning, and stay longer than expected.Five stories of women discovering desire on their own terms: on a staircase that never gets climbed, in a prison shower room lit by moonlight, at the back of a Tuesday night bar, over a dinner that ends with a coupon redeemed, and in a bed the morning after a supper club where the guest list got complicated.Warm, unhurried, and told close to the skin. For...

*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*From 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner, Ada Palmer, the second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity“A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings

Ada Palmer - InterviewStoriesRobert Gordon _ AeaeaHelen Jackson _ Do Not Pass GOAnton Rose _ JammersJ S Richardson _ Paradise BirdW G White _ Sand and RustElva Hills _ Sleeping FireDuncan Lunan _ The Square FellaSF Poetry: Caroline Hardaker, Ken Poyner, Elizabeth DulembaChris Kelso _ SF Caledonia Crossing the StarfieldMark Toner _ The Beachcomber PresentsandRuth EJ Booth _ Noise a...

From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing—and reading!****—work.Jo Walton and Ada Palmer are two of the most innovative and insightful writers to emerge in the SF and fantasy genres in this century. As writers of fiction they’ve each won multiple awards. As commenters on SF and fantasy in print and in visual media, they’ve both sparked new conversations that expanded our imaginations and understan...

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 Julie Dillon, and editorials by Lynne M....

The Will to Battle—the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series—a political science fiction epic of extraordinary audacity“A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent.” —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings...

From the award winning author of the Terra Ignota series comes And Loki in His Prison, an epic reimagining of the story of Loki, perfect for readers of Nicola Griffith and The Witch's Heart.In Greenland, a settlement on the edge of starvation despairs of Christ and makes sacrifice to the old gods.In London, a playwright calls upon to the muse of fire.In his prison, Loki waits, watching the door.