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Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer is a historian and novelist in Chicago, Illinois. Her science fiction series Terra Ignota was a 2022 Hugo Award finalist.

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Royalty Reconsidered: The King’s Beer and the Commoner’s Shirt

A new exhibition looks at Europe’s earliest societies

Ada Palmer

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