Interview with Ada Palmer
Today I am hosting an interview with Ada Palmer, the latest stop on her blog tour for her new book Too Like the Lightning. I’ve attempted to avoid spoilers in both interview questions and review, although both refer to the contents; you can read my thoughts on the book here.
1) Are you in some sense a dual-vocateur, or is only one of writing and ( Read more... )
Cousins: Not a chance; having an obligation to offer help to random strangers would be unendurably intrusive.
Europeans: They seem to be carrying on all the traditions that I find unpleasant in the current European Union, mixed with older aristocratic traditions.
Gordians: I have no idea who they are or what their goals are.
Humanists: Mostly harmless, but they seem to be made up of two sorts of people I've never felt much interest in, and their focus would be unendurably boring.
Masons: Explicitly fascistic and proud of it.
Mitsubishi: The Asian cultural roots are more collectivist than I like, but what really makes them unacceptable is Greenpeace.
Utopians: They have some superficially attractive traits, though I don't really know how their political institutions work, or what their legal rules are; but I don't have that kind of work-focused personality. I mean, I have time to post a comment here!
No, I think in that world I could only be hiveless. Definitely not blacklaw, though; I have no talent for the violent arts, and I'd be dead in days if I tried to live that way.
What I want to know is how the Gordians came to be led by a Justice League supervillain. . . .
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