Too Like the Lightning

Praise for Book 1 of Terra Ignota, Too Like the Lightning Bold, furiously inventive, and mesmerizing...It's the best science fiction novel I've read in a long while. --Robert Charles Wilson More intricate, more plausible, more significant than any debut I can recall...If you read a debut novel this year, make it Too Like the Lightning. --Cory Doctorow Astonishingly dense, accomplished and well-realized, with a future that feels real in both its strangeness and its familiarity. --RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) The Terra Ignota books are is the kind of science fiction that makes me excited all over again about what science fiction can do. --Jo Walton Excellent. --Craig Newmark Praise for Book 2 of Terra Ignota, Seven Surrenders A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time. --Max Gladstone A breathless and devious intellectual page-turner, Seven Surrenders veers expertly between love, murder, mayhem, parenthood, theology, and high politics. I haven't had this much fun with a book in a long time. --Max Gladstone Wonderfull 18th-century style narrative voice....a richly and highly sophisticated novel that calls for repeated re-readings. --SFRevu The eloquence ofPalmer's reflections on social issues cannot be denied. --Library Journal, starred review Palmer crafts one of the most compelling narrative voices around in describing this impossible, fascinating and plausibly contradictory world. --RT Book Reviews, 4-1/2 stars Devastatingly accomplished...An arch and playful narrative that combines the conscious irreverence of the best of 18th-century philosophy with the high-octane heat of an epic science fiction thriller. --Liz Bourke Palmer proves that the boundaries of science fiction can be pushed and the history and the future can be married together. --Publishers Weekly Praise for Book 3 of Terra Ignota, The Will to Battle It is increasingly clear that we are in the hands of a new master of the genre....There's a resonance and richness to the Terra Ignota series that is like almost nothing else being written today. --RT Book Reviews, 5 stars Innovative, mesmerizing and full of fun. Ada Palmer lets her imagination weave a truly great political science story in an imagined world - full of lessons from real-world history. --Washington Book Review One appreciates the wry humor and the ingenious depth of her worldbuilding. The interplay between reader and narrator is especially enjoyable. --Publishers Weekly Any reader who has ever thrilled to the intricate machinations of the Dune books, or the Instrumentality tales of Cordwainer Smith, or the sensual, tactile, lived-in futures of Delany or M. John Harrison... will enjoy the mental and emotional workout offered by Palmer's challenging Terra Ignota cycle. --Locus This series is one the best things that has happened to science fiction in the 21st Century and I can't hardly wait to see where Ada Palmer is going to take us with Perhaps the Stars. --SffWorld