A Memory Called Empire

Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Arkady Martine´s A Memory Called Empire is one of the hottest science fiction debuts around. For those who loved Ann Leckie´s epic space opera Ancillary Justice, Tamsyn Muir´s Gideon the Ninth and Iain M. Banks´s Culture novels. Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.

In a war of lies she seeks the truth . . .

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare travels to the Teixcalaanli Empire´s interstellar capital, eager to take up her new post. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no one will admit his death wasn´t accidental - and she might be next.

Now Mahit must navigate the capital´s enticing yet deadly halls of power, to discover dangerous truths. And while she hunts for the killer, Mahit must somehow prevent the rapacious Empire from annexing her home: a small, fiercely independent mining station.

As she sinks deeper into an alien culture that is all too seductive, Mahit engages in intrigues of her own. For she´s hiding an extraordinary technological secret, one which might destroy her station and its way of life. Or it might save them from annihilation.

A Memory Called Empire is followed by A Desolation Called Peace in the Teixcalaan duology.