The long wait is over at last, and Too Like the Lightning came out yesterday! This is just a simple little links round-up post by Jo. Too Like the Lightning is available right now as a hardback book and as an e-book in multiple formats, and the audiobook was also just released — and here’s the audiobook cover, which makes me think we’re very lucky indeed with the main cover.
First, unrelated to the book, on Lawrence Schoen’s Eating Authors Ada has an essay about “Her Favorite Ever Meal” which, naturally, was in Florence…
Meanwhile Ada’s been guest blogging about it all over:
Ada's Guest Blog Posts
Whatever (John Scalzi's Blog): The Big Idea, Too Like the Lightning
BiblioSanctum: In Terra Ignota, Diaspora Becomes Nations Without Borders
Tor/Forge Blog: World Building Like a Historian (Terra Ignota)
SF Signal: Middle Future Science Fiction (Terra Ignota)
Locus Online: World Building and Change in Terra Ignota
My Bookish Ways: Q&A with Ada Palmer about Too Like the Lightning
In addition, there have been some really excellent reviews that recognise what an astonishing and game changing book it is:
Reviews of Too Like the Lightning
Barnes and Noble: The Future is Past in Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning
BoingBoing: Too Like the Lightning: intricate worldbuilding, brilliant speculation, gripping storytelling
Crooked Timber: What's So Brilliant about Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning
Geekly Inc: Not the Best of All Possible Worlds But Close
Jo Walton on Tor.com: A Future Worth Having
NPR Review: Science Fiction and Philosophy Collide in Astonishing Lightning (Too Like the Lightning)
Romantic Times: Review of Too Like the Lightning (
SF Revu. "one of the truly great works of speculative literature"
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