THE WEIRD HAND OF PROGRESS.

One of Palmer's closest friends, the fantasy writer Jo Walton, tells me that, for a person who thinks a lot about the progression of events, Palmer has absolutely no concept of time. Recently, I told Palmer about a cryptocurrency conference in San Francisco that included a seminar about how Covid will produce a golden era, like the Black Death produced the Renaissance. FEATURES RARELY INTEREST THE SCI-FI AUTHOR ADA PALMER. Like Wolfe, who shaped the metaphysics of Book of the New Sun around his own Catholic views, Palmer would incorporate her own hodgepodge of theological and intellectual influences - a divine plan shaped by a historian's view of how society actually progresses. [Extracted from the article]