![]() (But) there's nothing more like the future than the past. “Some people find it funny for a historian to be writing science fiction, and they say the future is the opposite of the past. “When you're reading it, the history comes through on every single page, and readers constantly comment, ‘You can really feel this is being written by a historian,’” said Palmer, a University of Chicago associate professor of Early Modern European History. This careful eye toward both past and future is likely one of the reasons her Terra Ignota series is a finalist for a Hugo Award-the highest literary award in science fiction and fantasy publishing. ![]() ![]() Instead, the past is a useful roadmap as she designs the worlds and stories in her books. When Ada Palmer steers into the future in her novels, she doesn’t keep history in her rearview mirror. ![]()
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