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Terra Ignota, the Glossary

Terra Ignota is a quartet of science fiction and philosophical novels by the American author Ada Palmer.^[1]

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A Clockwork Orange (novel)

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Terra Ignota and a Clockwork Orange (novel) are Metafictional novels.

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Absolute monarchy

Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.

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Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer (born June 9, 1981) is an American historian and writer and winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics.

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The ancien régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic.

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Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in 2013. Terra Ignota and Ancillary Justice are literature by women.

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Baltimore Science Fiction Society

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) is a literary organization focusing on science fiction, fantasy and related genres.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.

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Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Casablanca

Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.

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Cohousing

Cohousing is an intentional, self-governing, cooperative community where residents live in private homes often clustered around shared space.

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Compton Crook Award

The Compton Crook Award is presented by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) to the year's best English language debut novel in the science fiction, fantasy, or horror genres, as voted by its members.

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Corporation

A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.

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Danaë

In Greek mythology, Danaë was an Argive princess and mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus.

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Danda

In Indic scripts, the daṇḍa (Sanskrit: दण्ड "stick") is a punctuation mark.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Epigraph (literature)

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Flying car

A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Full stop

The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).

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Gender neutrality

Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender.

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Gender-neutral language

Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender.

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Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gordian Knot

The cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart.

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Greater-than sign

The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values.

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Guillemet

Guillemets (also) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, and, used as quotation marks in a number of languages.

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Hari Seldon

Hari Seldon is a fictional character in the ''Foundation'' series of novels by Isaac Asimov.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Series

The Hugo Award for Best Series is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Indentured servitude

Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt (Austro-Bavarian) is an independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142.308 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2023).

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Inverted question and exclamation marks

The inverted question mark,, and inverted exclamation mark,, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages which have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray languages.

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Jacques the Fatalist

Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765–1780.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Less-than sign

The less-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values.

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Leviathan (Hobbes book)

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668).

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Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography.

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Masonic lodge

A Masonic lodge, also called a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.

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Minor (law)

In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood.

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Mitsubishi

The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.

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Mode of transport

A mode of transport is a method or way of travelling, or of transporting people or cargo.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.

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Nation

A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.

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Nation state

A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.

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Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nuclear family

A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

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Parable of the Good Samaritan

The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

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Paul Kincaid

Paul Kincaid (born 22 September 1952 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a British science fiction literary critic.

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Peace

Peace means societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence.

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Perhaps the Stars

Perhaps the Stars is the fourth novel in a science fiction quartet called Terra Ignota, written by the American author Ada Palmer. Terra Ignota and Perhaps the Stars are 2021 American novels, 2021 science fiction novels, American LGBT novels, American philosophical novels, Metafictional novels, novels about religion, novels by Ada Palmer, novels set in the 25th century and Utopian novels.

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Personal pronoun

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).

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Philosophical fiction

Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy.

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Pleading

In law as practiced in countries that follow the English models, a pleading is a formal written statement of one party's claims or defenses in response to another party's complaint(s) in a civil action.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Quotation mark

Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Religious war

A religious war or a war of religion, sometimes also known as a holy war (sanctum bellum), is a war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Seven Surrenders

Seven Surrenders is the second novel in a science fiction quartet called Terra Ignota, written by the American author Ada Palmer. Terra Ignota and Seven Surrenders are 2017 American novels, 2017 science fiction novels, American LGBT novels, American philosophical novels, literature by women, Metafictional novels, novels about religion, novels by Ada Palmer, novels set in the 25th century and Utopian novels.

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Singular they

Singular they, along with its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (also ''themself'' and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms.

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Strange Horizons

Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine.

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Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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Terra incognita

Terra incognita or terra ignota (Latin "unknown land"; incognita is stressed on its second syllable in Latin, but with variation in pronunciation in English) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented.

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The New York Review of Science Fiction

The New York Review of Science Fiction is a monthly literary magazine of science fiction that was established in 1988.

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The Will to Battle

The Will to Battle is the third novel in a science fiction quartet called Terra Ignota, written by the American author Ada Palmer. Terra Ignota and the Will to Battle are 2017 American novels, 2017 science fiction novels, American LGBT novels, American philosophical novels, Metafictional novels, novels about religion, novels by Ada Palmer, novels set in the 25th century and Utopian novels.

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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher.

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Timocracy

A timocracy (from Greek τιμή timē, "honor, worth" and -κρατία -kratia, "rule") in Aristotle's Politics is a state where only property owners may participate in government.

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Too Like the Lightning

Too Like the Lightning is the first novel in a science fiction quartet called Terra Ignota, written by the American author Ada Palmer. Terra Ignota and Too Like the Lightning are 2016 American novels, 2016 science fiction novels, American LGBT novels, American philosophical novels, Metafictional novels, novels about religion, novels by Ada Palmer, novels set in the 25th century and Utopian novels.

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Tor Books

Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City.

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Total war

Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all (including civilian-associated) resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilises all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Ignota

Also known as Terra Ignota (series), Terra Ignota quartet.

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Terra Ignota, the Glossary

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See also

2016 science fiction novels

2017 science fiction novels

2021 science fiction novels

Dystopian novel series

Novels by Ada Palmer

Novels set in the 25th century

Science fiction novel series

References