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Ada Palmer

Palmer, Ada

June 9, 1981 (age 44)

Birth place: Washington, D. C., USA

26 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
June 2016 |2.1 Review Too Like the Lightning Strange Horizons, 20 June 2016
June 2016 16 Review Too Like the Lightning Locus, #665 June 2016
August 2016 |3 Essay Tomorrow Through the Past: Jo Walton and Ada Palmer in Conversation Strange Horizons, 29 August 2016
September 2016 1 Review Too Like the Lightning The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 2016
September 2016 13 Review Too Like the Lightning The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 2016
April 2017 132 Interview Enlightenment Voices and Norse A Cappella: A Conversation with Ada Palmer Clarkesworld, April 2017
May 2017 |4.2 Review Seven Surrenders Strange Horizons, 8 May 2017
August 2017 144 Short Fiction New Gray Ring to Join the Olympic Five Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2017 (Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition)
September 2017 81 Review Too Like the Lightning Interzone, September-October 2017
December 2017 |17 Review Too Like the Lightning Shoreline of Infinity, Winter 2017/2018
May 2018 26 Interview Beyond the Exponential Age Locus, #688 May 2018
June 2018 |11 Interview Interview: Ada Palmer Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2018
June 2018 |14.1 Review Seven Surrenders Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2018
June 2018 |14.2 Review The Will to Battle Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2018
October 2018 |5.1 Review Seven Surrenders Strange Horizons, 15 October 2018
October 2018 |5.2 Review The Will to Battle Strange Horizons, 15 October 2018
May 2020 |14 Essay Censorship and Genre Fiction—Let's Broaden Our Broader Reality Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2020
May 2021 |13 Essay The Protagonist Problem Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2021
September 2021 |13 Essay Expanding Our Empathy Sphere Using F&SF, a History Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2021
December 2021 |3 Review Perhaps the Stars Strange Horizons, 6 December 2021
August 2022 |3 Essay Writing/Realizing Disability + Power Strange Horizons, 22 August 2022
July 2023 |4 Essay A Mitfreude of Anime and Manga's Relationship with Anglophone Science Fiction (Or, This Essay Will Not Try to Get You Into Anime and Manga!) Strange Horizons, 24 July 2023
November 2023 |3 Essay The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking Strange Horizons, 27 November 2023
August 2024 |5 Essay Science Fiction Is an Intellectual Technology Strange Horizons, 26 August 2024
December 2025 |4 Essay Feminist Futurism Versus Project 2025: An Empowering Speculative Salon Strange Horizons, 22 December 2025
January 2026 |4 Essay Feminist Futurism Versus Project 2025: An Empowering Speculative Salon Strange Horizons, 12 January 2026

4 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2016 Novel Too Like the Lightning Ada Palmer
2017 Novel Seven Surrenders Ada Palmer
2017 Novel The Will to Battle Ada Palmer
2021 Novel Perhaps the Stars Ada Palmer

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction Too Like the Lightning Nominee
2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Too Like the Lightning Nominee
2017 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Seven Surrenders Nominee
2017 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel The Will to Battle Nominee
2017 Compton Crook Award Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) Too Like the Lightning Winner
2017 Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction Seven Surrenders Nominee
2017 Hugo Award Best Novel Too Like the Lightning Finalist
2017 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Too Like the Lightning Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Too Like the Lightning Nominee
2017 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel Too Like the Lightning Nominee
2018 Hugo Award Best Novel Seven Surrenders Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Seven Surrenders Nominee
2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger Trop semblable à l'éclair Nominee
2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Traduction Trop semblable à l'éclair Winner
2021 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger Trop semblable à l'éclair Nominee
2021 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger Sept redditions Nominee
2022 Hugo Award Best Novel Perhaps the Stars Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Perhaps the Stars Nominee
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