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Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
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Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
The sci-fi author writes about the 25th century and teaches college students about the 15th. The past we think we know is wrong, she says—and so is the future.
Dystopias rarely interest the sci-fi author Ada Palmer.
They have too much moral clarity for her taste: Times are bad, the badness is well defined, and in fighting it people can delude themselves into thinking they know the right way to act. Palmer, who recently published the fourth and final book in her Terra Ignota series—a brilliant, ambitious, exhausting 25th-century epic—does not believe that the future will be bad or good. It will be “weird,” she says. Also “scary and uncomfortable.”
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