The thessaly trilogy by jo walton5/11/2023 ![]() Her first science fiction novel, Too Like the Lightning (May 2016), is a tale of global politics in the year 2454, set in a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance and borderless nations, and written in the a style of an eighteenth-century philosophical novel like Candide. Her first nonfiction book, Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (2014), explores the impact of the rediscovery of classical atomism on the birth of modern thought. She teaches in the History Department at the University of Chicago, and often does research in Italy, especially Florence and Rome. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.Īda Palmer is a historian of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, classical reception, the history of books, and the history of philosophy, heresy, science, and atheism. ![]() ![]() She has recently been travelling a lot, which has come as a pleasant surprise. She also writes poetry and has a Patreon for it. She lives in Montreal where she writes, reads, cooks, and blogs on Tor.com. A collection of her essays about SF from Tor.com, What Makes This Book So Great, won the Locus award in 2015. ![]() ![]() She is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Among Others and twelve other novels, most recently the Thessaly series, The Just City (2015), The Philosopher Kings (2015) and Necessity (July 2016). Jo Walton's first story was published in Strange Horizons back in 2000, when Strange Horizons was young. ![]()
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