The ExoTerra Team

Ada Palmer is both a historian and a science fiction and fantasy novelist. Her history research focuses on the history of radical thought in Europe, especially the Italian Renaissance and the relationship between new information technologies and new forms of censorship. As a writer, she is best known for her Terra Ignota series, beginning with the award-winning Too Like the Lightning, which explore a 25th century of commixing borderless nations, written in the style of an 18th century philosophical novel. For many years she has designed games and used gaming in for teaching and community building, and her simulation of the papal election of 1492 is well known on U Chicago's campus. She likes to explore the power of low-tech games, i.e. text-based and face-to-face games where, instead of expensive graphics which quickly become outdated, we call on the imagination to fill in the world, which in the mind's eye always looks just right.

Sky Yoo is a rising fourth-year in the College, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in English and Creative Writing. She helps run the ExoTerra project, particularly managing the website. Sky has coded small RPGs using Unity, founded and maintains a creative writing blog, enjoys playing RPG strategy games, and especially loves worldbuilding for her pseudonymously published science fiction novels.