Ex Urbe Ad Astra Bonus Episode 1: Complicity

Ex Urbe Ad Astra by Ada Palmer

Aug 19, 202101:18:23Society & Culture

In 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...

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