![]() ![]() Arkady Martine’s novels have found a successful way to engage with this trait. By its nature it deals with a vast spread of worlds and populations, yet we are acutely aware that no matter how rigorous the worldbuilding, the setting has ultimately been tailored to fit the central characters and their individual arcs. The space opera is – like its more (middle)earthbound cousin, epic fantasy – a genre that teeters between the personal and the universal. ![]() Thanks to the technology of Imago she still shares her mind with the consciousness of the previeus ambassador Yskandr – specifically, two different versions of Yskandr, his consciousness having been recorded at two points in his life, twenty years apart. Mahit Dzmare, ambassador to Teixcalaan, returns from starring in the previous novel. A Desolation Called Peace takes place early in the reign of Her Brilliance Nineteen Adze, an emperor, faced with an encroaching threat: humanity is making first contact with aliens – and those aliens are both advanced and hostile. The sequel to Arkady Martine’s earlier Hugo-winner A Memory Called Empire, this novel returns to the realm of the interplanetary Teixcalaan Empire. ![]()
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