some recent info from ada palmer, including excerpts from the next book

[buhrger]

if you're not following her ex urbe blog, you may have missed several things she's put up in the last few days:

1. as part of jo walton's decameron project, she has two excerpts from perhaps the stars which apparently won't be out until july 2021
   
   
2. she wrote an essay on genre fiction and censorship uncanny magazine
   
   
3. she did an amazing 2¾ hour podcast on the singularity podcast that's amazingly informative. (who knew that canteloupe had an effect on the french revolution?)
   
   
4. she transcribed some comments from herself and jo walton on writing and point of view that show up at the end of her post.
   
   
5. and then in another post, she wrote a long explainer (with some overlap with the podcast) about whether covid will lead to a new age, like the black death lead to the renaissance. short answer: there are several things wrong with that suggestion. long answer: it sounds like she may actually have (inadvertently?) mostly-written a book about this, of which this essay is a précis?