Books by Ada Palmer

In the fourth volume of the Terra Ignota series, the long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end...

In the third volume of Terra Ignota, the world has been upended and war is inevitable.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision, a future in which no one living can recall an actual war... a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.

The year is 2454: Earth's hard-won utopian society is threatened by a young boy with apparently god-like powers.

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.