A Memory Called Empire
Author: Arkady Martine
ISBN-13: 9781250186447
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2020
- Date Started
- Aug 28, 2025
- Date Completed
- September 22, 2025
- Shelves
- Read Would Read Again
- One Sentence Summary
- Mahit Dzmare is the new ambassador from a strategically important space station to the capital city of a sprawling interstellar empire who is immediatelly caught up in a deadly game of political intrigue.
- Why I Chose This Book
- Recommended by several friends.
- Any surprises?
- People in this book are named things like Thirty-Six All-Terrain Tundra Vehicle.
- Lingering Questions
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What makes technology immoral?
What parts of cultural memory are worth preserving and passing on? Which parts are worth discarding?
What is the relationship between art and propaganda, particularly rhetoric and literary arts?
- Strengths
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- Tags
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futurism science fiction