The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Hugo Award Winner)

A lot of ink, digital and otherwise, is spilled each year as writers—pressured endlessly into coming up with think-pieces—point and laugh at the generations-old predictions science fiction made about the future. Flying cars! We were promised flying cars! Sure, the genre sometimes gets things wrong when it predicts the future, but a surprising number of once science fictional technologies are now […]

In Ada Palmer’s first novel, Too Like the Lightning, the history professor tells an ambitious story of a future word on the brink of extraordinary change, when the well-ordered structures of society are poised to collapse under their own weight given the introduction of a young boy who represents something wholly new and unexpected. The […]

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