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3 weeks ago | 
whatever.scalzi.com | Ada Palmer |John Scalzi
Author and historian Ada Palmer was asked a seemingly simple question and, of course, not only was the answer to the question more complicated than it seemed, but the question itself was more than a little suspect. Palmer is here to explain why in this Big Idea for Inventing the Renaissance.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Jonathan Thornton |Christina Orlando |Jo Lindsay Walton |Ada Palmer
It’s time once again to look back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year! Today, we’re highlighting many of our favorite essays about books, reading, writing, and storytelling—there will be a separate list of articles discussing TV, movies, and other media coming soon.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Ada Palmer |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
Here in the 2020s, Earth is concluding our first century of politics shaped by comparing our lived experience with thousands of other worlds. This intellectual technology may be the least recognized defining feature of our modern life.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Ada Palmer
“Was it a government action, or did they do it themselves because of pressure?”This is inevitably among our first questions when news breaks that any expressive work (a book, film, news story, blog post etc.) has been censored or suppressed by the company or group trusted with it (a publisher, a film studio, a newspaper, an awards organization etc.)This is not a direct analysis of the current 2023 Chengdu Hugo Awards controversy.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Ada Palmer |Carlos Ruiz Zafón |Gabrielle Zevin
You can’t read all the books. You can’t even read all the books you want to read, even if you’re someone like me who is lucky enough to be able to say that reading books is a professional obligation. As I hope readers know, I take my responsibility to recommend books to those who request them very seriously. Part of that seriousness is to try to recommend books that people otherwise might not discover for themselves. This means I often intentionally don’t read books lots of other people have read.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Ada Palmer |Carlos Ruiz Zafón |Gabrielle Zevin
You can’t read all the books. You can’t even read all the books you want to read, even if you’re someone like me who is lucky enough to be able to say that reading books is a professional obligation. As I hope readers know, I take my responsibility to recommend books to those who request them very seriously. Part of that seriousness is to try to recommend books that people otherwise might not discover for themselves. This means I often intentionally don’t read books lots of other people have read.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Racheal Chie |Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Ada Palmer
Dearly Departed is a novel about a young woman named Theodora Sharp, the granddaughter and protégé of Dorothea Sharp. It is a coming-of-age story, with the novel’s major themes being death and grief, while loneliness and family are its minor themes. Theodora—Teddy—is an orphan, a young genius who by the age of nine was the youngest piccolo player to play in a symphony, created a multinational company by fourteen, and graduated Massachusetts Institute of Technology at seventeen.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Rosamund Lannin |Lune Loh |Ada Palmer |Kristy Anne Cox
[Spoilers for “The Voice in the Night,” Mexican Gothic, The Girl With All the Gifts, Ambergris, the X-Files episode “Field Trip,” and Star Trek: Discovery.]There’s something about mushrooms that gets our minds sporing. These spores sometimes take the form of stories: from Alice in Wonderland to Ray Bradbury’s “Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!” to Sheri S.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Kristy Anne Cox |Ada Palmer
you no longer have image. in photos your cheek² sharpens, vectors. Binary Star System That cis-tem is now only a speck. Out of the Damp and Dark: The Evolution of Mushrooms in Fiction Mushrooms didn’t exactly sweep sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, but much like their real-world inspiration they persisted, growing in the damp, dark crevices of the creative minds of every generation. They were a template for the anxieties of each age, seasoned with the fears of the era.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Ada Palmer |Claire Light
you no longer have image. in photos your cheek² sharpens, vectors. That cis-tem is now only a speck. Mushrooms didn’t exactly sweep sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, but much like their real-world inspiration they persisted, growing in the damp, dark crevices of the creative minds of every generation. They were a template for the anxieties of each age, seasoned with the fears of the era.
