Sci-fi author Ada Palmer does not believe that the future will be bad or good. It will be “weird,” she says. Also “scary and uncomfortable.”
Yet the Palmerverse is also an uneasy place. Society has banned discussion of religion and gender, finding silence a suitable antidote to intolerance. Innovation has slowed; the spirit of exploration has dimmed. Humanity remains centuries away from a terraformed Mars, much less jaunts to distant stars. Most people have such faith in the steady-state ticking of their perfect system that they cannot see the decay around them.
Each spring, Palmer tries to impart this lesson to her students by having them simulate a 15th-century papal conclave. She assigns them the roles of cardinals, monarchs, and assorted hangers-on, all jockeying to put their guy on the Throne of Saint Peter. She gives them note cards detailing the allegiances they hold, the favors they can trade, the children they can marry off.
A collection of objects from Palmer's house, including a bust of Diderot, a broken-off hand from a Mary icon, and wax-sealed letters from a papal conclave simulation.any concept from her books that Palmer hopes will catch on, like “robot” and “cyberspace” did for other authors, it is a model of living called a bash'. The word is derived from a Japanese term,, which means “a place where you can feel like yourself.
Palmer had spent recent weeks mostly in this recumbent position and would not stray far from it during the next 24 hours. Her blood pressure was chronically low, she explained, and she felt dizzy whenever she stood up. She had just filed the paperwork to take a medical leave from the university. But lying down, her brain worked just fine—“as you can see,” she declared to me later, after a few hours of talking about Norse metaphysics.
As a teen, Palmer began to struggle with pain she could not easily explain. She would later learn that she had developed Crohn's disease as well as polycystic ovary syndrome. The latter, a hormone disorder, also caused her to develop a mustache and the body odors of a pubescent boy, and she felt ostracized by the students at her all-girls school. She identifies now as a “masculine woman,” a term she learned from anime that is easier to convey in Japanese.
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