Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel
A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019
A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of Geek
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and "Not the Booker Prize" Nominee
A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee
A Memory Called Empire
perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and
identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it.--Ann
Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice
Ambassador Mahit
Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire
only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from
their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no
one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be
next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest
echelons of the imperial court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion--all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret--one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life--or rescue it from annihilation.
A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure.
The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love.--Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
And coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace!