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"[An] all around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, on A Memory Called Empire
A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire.
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options.
In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity.
Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion.
Or it might create something far stranger . . .
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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!
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Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations.
Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more, The Mythic Dream is sure to become a new classic.
As we wait for the light of Spring to return, as we live each day looking for hope & beauty amidst the things that frighten us, stories are (and always have been, and always will be) our most steadfast companions.
We hope that you enjoy these nine potent reminders, to mark the start of our ninth year.
Featuring new fiction by Elizabeth Bear, S.B. Divya, Arkady Martine, Marissa Lingen, Sunny Moraine, Vivian Shaw, and R.K. Kalaw, reprinted fiction by Vandana Singh, essays by Fran Wilde, John Wiswell, Iori Kusano, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Sarah Monette, and poetry by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar, Nitoo Das, Sonya Taaffe, and Ana Hurtado, interviews with S.B. Divya and Sunny Moraine by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Tran Nguyen, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Our five May stories contain unique voices that will carry readers to beautiful and tragic places, be it to distant star empires, robot-infested cities, the cracked world in the wake of an earthquake, or the inner chambers of the human heart.
All the Colors You Thought Were Kings, by Arkady Martine
Moonrise glitters dull on the sides of the ship that'll take you away. She's down by the water, her belly kissing the sand and her skinny landing-legs stuck out like a crab. You and Tamar watched her land, stayed up half the night like babies staring at their first meteor storm, peeking over the railings of Tamar's balcony and marveling at how the falling star-glimmer lit up the lights under your skins like an echo. You two have been full up with starstuff for as long as you've been old enough to go outside the crèche by yourselves. Now you're almost home.
Suicide Bots, by Bentley A. Reese
The car won't go faster. Why won't it go faster? It needs to go faster. We're laughing. I grind my foot against the gas pedal. I stand half off my seat and lay into it. I scream at the gas. The gas is no good. The gas needs to go faster. I hear plastic snap and the pedal breaks under my foot—we go a wild two-thirty. We fly across the road. The Mustang's engine punches out of the hood. A steaming, choking monster, it wants us to want it. I wanna ride it. I want to ride the engine screaming and burning into stupid oblivion. I'll rut the world so it remembers I existed. So I remember that I existed.
Define Symbiont, by Rich Larson
They are running the perimeter again, slipping in and out of cover, sun and shadow. Pilar knows the route by rote: crouch here, dash there, slow then quick. While they run, she ticks up and down the list of emergency overrides, because it has become a ritual to her over the course of the long nightmare, a rosary under her chafed-skinless fingertips
An Atlas in Sgraffito Style, by A.J. Fitzwater
It's the third month after the cities collide when the women dance out of the walls. They are the worthy women, the terrible, bright, ugly, and genius. Terrifying puppet vandals.
.subroutine:all///end, by Rachael Acks
The first despairing sob of Helen’s cracked voice registers, matches waveforms, and executes number 88 out of my 2,102 hanging subroutines.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
· Coming of Age in A Visual World by Ajapa Sharma
SHORT STORIES
· Ruin Marble by Arkady Martine
· Datsue-Ba by Eliza Chan
FLASH FICTION
· The Tailings by Brian Daniel Green
NOVELETTE
· Champollion’s Foot by Haris A. Durrani
POETRY
· Instructions for Astronauts by Michael Janairo
· Three Poems by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
· family (a form somehow must) by Gwynne Garfinkle
· How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong by Hester J. Rook
· The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych by Layla Al-Bedawi, Holly Lyn Walrath & Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
VISUAL SPOTLIGHT
· Her Broken Shadow: How I Made a Science-Fiction Feature Film in East Africa by Dilman Dila
· From the Ruins of the Quake by Ashim Shakya
· An Indian Architecture Student’s Art Journal by Ashish Mathew Mammen
· Two Visual Poems by Holly Lyn Walrath
ARTICLES
· Robots, Ghosts, and Dreams: Some Preoccupations of World SF by Rachel Cordasco
· Aliens with a Human Face: The Human-like Non-Humans of Doctor Who by Urna Mukherjee
· Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir by Ajapa Sharma
· The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye by Salik Shah
Edited by Salik Shah and Ajapa Sharma
Edited by Rose Lemberg, and featuring work by:
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Amal El-Mohtar
Arkady Martine
Celeste Rita Baker
Ching-In Chen
Emily Jiang
Emily Stoddard
Greer Gilman
Ian Muneshwar
JY Yang
Kari Sperring
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
M Sereno
M. David Blake
Mari Ness
Mina Li
Nin Harris
Nisi Shawl
Nolan Liebert
Sara Norja
Sheree Renée Thomas
Shweta Narayan
Sonya Taaffe
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Vajra Chandrasekera
Yoon Ha Lee
Zen Cho
Cover art by Galen Dara
Interior illustrations by M Sereno (Likhain)
Designed and typeset by Bogi Takács
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
When the Fall Is All That's Left — Arkady Martine
All Things to All People — D.K. Thompson
Me and Jasper, Down by the Meth Shack — Aaron Saylor
The Atlas of Hell — Nathan Ballingrud
Super Duper Fly — Maurice Broaddus
Nonfiction
Unreliable Narrators in Kiernan and Chambers — Lucy A. Snyder
Interview with D.K. Thompson — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Joshua Hutchinson — Russell Dickerson
Poetry
Ten Little Zombies — Gregg Chamberlain
The Underworld — Laurel Dixon
Minotaur — Zachary Riddle
Hello, Wild Things, and Good Luck — Sarah Hollowell
Excerpts
Empire Ascendant — Kameron Hurley
The Pickpocket's Tale — Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart
Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore