Science Fiction · TenseAmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the Teixcalaanli Empire carrying her dead predecessor's memories and must investigate his death
A Memory Called Empire
An ambassador, an empire and a predecessor she carries inside
Tor Books published the novel on 26 March 2019, and the hardcover has 462 pages. It is the debut of Arkady Martine and the first Teixcalaan book, followed by A Desolation Called Peace. Mahit Dzmare is the ambassador from Lsel Station. Her predecessor Yskandr Aghavn survives as a consciousness copy whose memories are fifteen years out of date. Martine, a former Byzantine historian, drew on the Byzantine and Aztec empires. Lsel Station's culture is inspired by the medieval Armenian Kingdom of Ani.
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Who
Mahit Dzmare, Yskandr Aghavn, Three Seagrass, Twelve Azalea, Nineteen Adze and Emperor Six Direction.
World
The Teixcalaanli Empire and Lsel Station.
What makes it different
The author is a former Byzantine historian. It won the Hugo and the Compton Crook Award.
Feel
Elegant and political.
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Further reading
- A Memory Called EmpireWikipedia