About the Author
ADA PALMER is a professor in the history department at the University of Chicago, specializing in the Renaissance and the history of ideas. Her first nonfiction book, Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance, was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. She is also a composer of folk- and Renaissance-tinged a cappella music, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. Her personal site is at adapalmer.com, and she writes about history for a popular audience at exurbe.com. Or sign up for email updates here.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING
Copyright © 2016 by Ada Palmer
All rights reserved.
Cover art by Victor Mosquera
Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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First Edition: May 2016
1 Mycroft’s translation: Nisi aliquid grave suspicaretur Dominicus non abesset.
2 Mycroft’s translation: Pro certo non. Non nullius momentis est hic fur, sed fidus est Dominic. Certe, nocte laborare non debes. Etiamnunc situm praeterire potes.