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If It Ain't Baroque...Reinventing... the Renaissance with Ada PalmerPlease welcome to the podcast Ada Palmer, who is talking about her new book - Inventing The Renaissance, just published with Head of Zeus.Let’s dive in and debunk some myths, shall we?Get Inventing the Renaissance:https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/inventing-the-renaissance-9781035910120/ (UK)https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo246135916.html (USA)Find Ada: https://www.adapalmer.com/blog-ex-urbe/https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ex-urbe-ad-astra/id1580107970https://exurbe.libsyn.com/
2025-02-131h 26
Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra #13 - The Florentine Renaissance with Larry RothfieldIn this episode, Ada and Jo speak with historian Larry Rothfield about the political nuances of 15th century Florence, and the shifting perspectives of the Renaissance to come since then.
2024-02-131h 47Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra #12 - Pacing with Ken LiuIn this episode, Ada and Jo discuss the merits of good pacing across a range of story lengths with Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Ken Liu.
2024-01-091h 52Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra #11 - The Problem of Evil in Narrative with Alexis ShotwellIn this episode, Ada and Jo speak with Alexis Shotwell about the issues that arise from ill-intentioned characters, and the moral questions they present to readers.
2023-12-051h 43Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra #10 - Setups and Payoffs with Jon EvansIn this episode, Ada and Jo speak with Jon Evans about the remote research versus travel, short stories, beleivability, and setting up shocking twists for striking payoffs.
2023-10-171h 43Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra #9 - Stopping ReadingIn this episode, Jo and Ada discuss a number of reasons to put a book down without finishing.
2023-08-291h 35
History of the 90sGolden Age of Anime | 90In March 1997 the Cartoon Network in the United States introduced a block of programming unlike anything ever seen before on a kids channel. From 4pm to 7pm each weekday young viewers could enjoy three hours of animated action shows from Japan.When Toonami put anime on TV in the prime after-school timeslot, it was the evolution of a slow steady climb that saw anime grow from an underground hobby in North America to a massive multi-million dollar industry with fans of all ages.On this episode of History of the 90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks...
2023-04-0535 minEx Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 7: Shakespeare And Language, With Writer Greer GilmanGreer Gilman has been writing stories set in Cloud, her Northern mythscape, for a quarter of a century. Her books are written for the ear, as much as for the understanding. Like the earliest stories, they are meant to be sung. Greer Gilman website
2022-11-091h 39Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 5: Writing The Near Future, With SF Writer Naomi KritzerNote to Patreon backers: You received this episode on November 10, 2021, but due to an oversight, it was never posted here. Normally you hear episodes a week in advance, but this one you received eight months in advance! Thank you to everyone for your patience. This episode is brought to you by Perhaps The Stars, the fourth and final novel in the Terra Ignota series, available now from (referrer links) Amazon, Barnes And Noble, Books-A-Million, Apple Books, and Indiebound. Naomi Kritzer has been publishing her science fiction and fantasy for the last twenty years. She lives i...
2022-07-131h 14Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Ep. 4, Part 2: ChaptersThis is the second half of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about writing chapters. This was a two-hour conversation, so our previous episode had the first hour, and this episode has the second hour.
2022-06-0252 minEx Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Ep. 4, Part 1: ChaptersThis is the first half of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about writing chapters. This was a two-hour conversation, so this episode has the first hour, and the next episode will have the second hour.
2022-05-211h 00
Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry David Perry is a freelance journalist covering politics, history, education, and disability rights. He was a professor of Medieval History at Dominican University from 2006-2017, and now works as an academic advisor in the history department of the University of Minnesota. His scholarly work focuses on Venice, the Crusades, and the Mediterranean World. Numerous topics covered include: Reasons to study history; how historical figures and institutions claimed legitimacy; calling an Age "Dark" or "Golden" in order to get legitimacy; patronage of the arts to prop up legitimacy; fake innovation and fake continuity; bastardy; parrots and coconuts in medieval Europe...
2021-10-281h 24Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 3: Hopepunk and positive futures with writer Ruthanna EmrysRuthanna Emrys is an author of science fiction and fantasy such as The Innsmouth Legacy series and Deep Roots, which are hopeful Lovecraftian fantasy, and the forthcoming A Half-Built Garden, a hopeful science fiction novel of first contact. Ruthanna Emrys Patreon "Reading The Weird" column on Tor.com Ruthanna Emrys homepage
2021-10-141h 15Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Ep. 2: Manga for non-manga readersThis will probably become a series of occasional bonus episodes in which Ada Palmer and Jo Walton discuss manga and anime with an eye to its innovations, cultural norms, and wider implications for the media landscape. - Gender and age marketing categories in manga. - Translation of Japanese onomatopoeia (sound-effect words). - The influence of organized communities of fandom on a medium. - A story-formula and set of character archetypes called "moe" (MO-ay). - Moe's reliable merchandising profit, resulting in more moe. - Availability of manga on devices both broadening and narrowing market categories. And more!
2021-09-161h 23
Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 2: Mars & How To Help Science Fiction Writers With Science, With Astrogeologist Jonathan SneedJonathan Sneed is an astrogeologist and expert in Mars wind and erosional science. He also consults with science fiction authors, and has the skill of giving the sort of answers to science questions that are useful when writing fiction. Numerous topics covered include - open questions in Mars science; panspermia; wind tunnels; and how entertainment technology is often ahead of technology made for any other industry. Also weird ideas for novels such as: an alien animal species that incorporates knowledge from brains through digestion; why a savannah planet can't work and how to make it work anyway...
2021-08-261h 19Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Episode 1: ComplicityIn this bonus episode, Ada Palmer and Jo Walton have a craft of writing discussion of complicity, i.e. when and how the author gets the reader or audience on the side of characters they would not expect to root for, and how that can be used in fiction.
2021-08-191h 18
Ex Urbe Ad AstraEx Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 1: Speculative Resistance With Writer Malka OlderNovelist and political scientist Malka Older, author of Infomocracy and its sequels, shares an interest with Ada Palmer in the development of political systems. With Jo Walton providing examples from her broad knowledge of the history of F&SF, they discuss speculative political systems, historical disaster response, and forms of organization with which populations can respond to their needs. Malka Older on Twitter: @m_older https://malkaolder.wordpress.com Read the first five chapters of Infomocracy: https://www.tor.com/2016/02/22/excerpts-malka-older-infomocracy-chapter-1/
2021-08-051h 34
FrithcastFrithcast Episode 68 - Come Kif - Following St AnsgarEpisode 68 – Come Kif! Following St Ansgar
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
2019-10-1545 min