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I can't recommend the author's novels highly enough. Terra Ignota, the first book being Too Like the Lightning.

• roflc0ptic 5y ago
  And the fourth and final one is coming out in August! I've started reading them out loud with my girlfriend. They're actually a little too complicated sentence-structure wise to be great for reading out loud, but whatever. It's lovely introducing her to Mycroft Canner.
  • sethish 5y ago
    The release was moved back to September 7th. The book ended up being 2x the length, and extra weird to typeset and translate to audiobook. I quite like the existing audiobooks. The narrator seems to be good with languages, and is familiar with the Iliad (Rage!)
• Symmetry 5y ago
  Basically, what happens when a historian imagines a world 400 years in the future as different, socially, as we are from 400 years in the past.
  • Banana699 5y ago
    One of the most realistic and "real" worlds from a socio-historical pov I've ever read.. Palmer's world building does for history and sociology what peter watts does for biology and neuroscience.
    • skybrian 5y ago
      I really like the worldbuilding, but I don't think it's any more "realistic" than a fantasy novel or galactic empire science fiction. In particular, the complicated governance stuff is in there because it's fun, not because it would actually work. There is straight-up magic as well as ambiguous possibly-magic.