Ada Palmer on Interintellect: October 27
A friendly online salon anyone can join -- with the inimitable author of the Terra Ignota series and the new Inventing the Renaissance
The extraordinary, inimitable Ada Palmer's most recent work is Inventing the Renaissance, which, in the words of Cory Doctorow, explores and explains how "the idea of a Renaissance, a rebirth out of a "dark age" into a "golden age," has been used, abused, created and demolished ... including while the Renaissance was actually underway."
Ada is also the author of the wildly original, Hugo-nominated science-fiction series Terra Ignota, and an eagerly anticipated forthcoming series about Norse myth.
In this much awaited, public online salon, hosted by novelist and technologist Jon Evans, we will discuss:
what the Renaissance was, wasn’t, and is today
her techniques for evoking histories and futures (including Inventing the Renaissance, science fiction, and her famous University of Chicago course which re-enacts the papal election of 1492)
the pleasures, parallels, and contrasts of science fiction and/vs. history
her new novel And Loki In His Prison
and, almost certainly, much more, across several spectrums of ideas
Follow Jon Evans.
Buy Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer.
