![]() It is a way of preserving experience and expertise and in A Memory Called Desire Mahit Dzamare was appointed ambassador to Teixcalaan where her consciousness merged with two imago-versions of Yskandr Aghavn, her predecessor. Lsel society has developed the imago, a memory stick of a person’s mind and memories, implantable in the brain stem of someone who then blends with it neurologically. Lsel is a torus-shaped space station, where 30,000 people dwell with meagre resources, close to the jumpgate where the aliens are operating. Alien to the point of being incomprehensible, audio recordings of noises made by the foreigners induce nausea. Their challenge is a militarized force appearing on the periphery, near a routing point (jumpgate) to other regions of the galaxy. The commander of its military legions is Nine Hibiscus and her adjutant is Twenty Cicada. Teixcalaan is a powerful and ambitious empire. ![]() Martine’s fiction embraces soaring fantasy mixing imagination with politics future scenarios with present colonialisms and a traumatic encounter in outer space that brings an existential and ethical reckoning. ![]() Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace, like A Memory Called Desire to which it is the sequel, is entertaining and intelligent speculative fiction. ![]()
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