Terra Ignota Crooked Timber Seminar

An in-depth discussion of the first two books of Terra Ignota, with lengthy analytic essays by a range of scholars, authors, and readers, followed by Ada Palmer’s responses, hosted on the political science blog Crooked Timber.

• The Seminar Begins (Participant list)
• “Complicity and the Reader” by Jo Walton
• “De Sade, war, civil society” by Henry Farrell
• “Future’s Past” by Neville Morley
• “The Old Dragon But Slept: Terra Ignota, the Sensayer System, and Faith” by Max Gladstone
• “Falling Into the cracks of Identity” by Ruthanna Emrys
• “Gods of This Fictional Universe” by Belle Waring
• “In Good Hands” by Maria Farrell
• “Heroes and Aliens” by John Holbo
• “Ada Palmer’s Great Conversation” by Lee Konstantinou

And Ada’s responses to those posts:

• The Dystopian Question and Minorities of One (Response to Ruthanna and Max)
• Reappropriated Histories and A Different Set of Tools (Response to Neville and Henry)
• Unusual Experience and Secondhand Plato (Response to Maria and Belle)
• Not Nothing and Speculating Late (Response to John and Lee)
• A Dialog on Narrative, Voice, Complicity and Intimacy (Dialog with Jo in response to Jo’s piece)