A confident beginning with the promise of future installments that can't come quickly enough.'- Kirkus, starred review 'Interesting, detailed, lavish.'- The Wall Street Journal ' A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. Readers will eagerly away the planned sequels to this impressive debut.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'Politics and personalities blend with an immersive setting and beautiful prose in a debut that weaves threads of identity, assimilation, technology, and culture to offer an exceedingly well-done sf political thriller.'- Library Journal, starred review 'This is both an epic and a human story, successful in the mode of Ann Leckie and Yoon Ha Lee. ' gorgeously crafted diplomatic space opera. This book has everything I love.' -Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. 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. 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.

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. A Library Journal Best Book of 2019 ' A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity.

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