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Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer

b. 1981

Ada Palmer is an American historian and writer and winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her first novel, Too Like the Lightning, was published in May 2016. The work has been well received by critics and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

4 books in collection

Must-Read 2016

Too Like the Lightning

Contemporary Speculative Fiction

Recommended 2021

Perhaps the Stars

Science Fiction

Recommended 2017

Seven Surrenders

Science Fiction

Recommended 2017

The Will to Battle

Science Fiction