Author: Ada Palmer

Cites

• Denis Diderot (1)
  • IN: Too like the Lightning (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ah, my poor Jacques! You are a philosopher. But don't worry: I'll protect you.
    FROM: Jacques the Fatalist and His Master, (1796), Book, France
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Seven Surrenders (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say, "It lightens."
    FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
• Thomas Hobbes (1)
  • IN: The Will to Battle (2017) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For Warre, consisteth not in Battell only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to contend by Battell is sufficiently known; and therefore the notion of Time, is to be considered in the nature of Warre; as it is in the nature of Weather.
    FROM: Leviathan XIII, (1651), Book, UK

Cited by

• Jo Walton (6)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am voyaging too. We will need the foundation as much as the dome For those worlds to come true.
    FROM: Somebody Will, (2012), Song, US
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Answer me, answer me Somebody answer me. Oldest of questions and Deepest of needs. Our Mystery, mystery, Teach us our history. Lost all again To the dark of the grave.
    FROM: A New World, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: The Just City (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The triremes which defended Greece at Salamis defended Mars too.
    FROM: Dogs of Peace, (2016), Novel, US
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am voyaging too. We will need the foundation as much as the dome For those worlds to come true.
    FROM: Somebody Will, (2012), Song, US