Let's read the Terra Ignota series together

Our summer reading is Ada Palmer's feat of utopian worldbuilding.

I’m spending the summer reading Ada Palmer’s series Terra Ignota and I would love to invite you to join me.

Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series is a masterpiece of utopian worldbuilding. Set in the year 2454, the world has seen centuries of peace and humanity and humanity enjoys highly advanced technologies, works no more than 20 hours a week, and lives in co-living collectives. Nation states have been replaced with world law and “hives” with voluntary citizenship—you could choose to live with the Humanists in Buenos Aires, for example, or with the Utopians on the moon.

The author is a historian and professor of Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Humanist studies, and she uses those ideals to build a vast and beautiful future. Let’s read the series the summer, then meet to talk about each element of the Terra Ignota world, compare them to those Enlightenment ideals of the past, and discuss what kind of Renaissance we want to create for our future.

We’ll be reading and discussing Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series:

• Book One: Too Like The Lightning (required reading)

• Book Two: Seven Surrenders (optional)

• Book Three: The Will To Battle (optional)

• Book Four: Perhaps The Stars (optional)

I’m looking forward to discussing this series with you and I hope you can join us for a literary salon discussion on the books in September! Click below to register for the event and join us 👇🏻

Subscribers at my collector tier can join for free.

This event is part of my Salon Series. You can register for my next three events here:

• Utopian Worldbuilding in Terra Ignota (September)

• Dystopia & Utopia in Aldous Huxley (November)

• Shangri-La: Buddhist Dreamscapes in the Western Imagination (January)

Thank you so much for studying utopian novels with me!

Elle Griffin