A Desolation Called Peace
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A Desolation Called Peace
| Author | Arkady Martine |
|---|---|
| Published | 2021 |
| Pages | 496 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Arkady Martine’s Hugo-winning sequel to A Memory Called Empire, in which an empire’s fleet meets an alien force it cannot communicate with, and the people sent to try are a diplomat and a bureaucrat rather than a war hero. It takes seriously that first contact is a linguistics question before it is a military one. |
A Desolation Called Peace
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Sci-fi “also worth reading” section (B tier), as volume two of the Teixcalaan series.
About this edition
The second of the two Teixcalaan volumes the list names; read it after A Memory Called Empire. It won the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Arkady Martine — the author.
- A Memory Called Empire — volume one, and the starting point.
- Identity · Power — the series’ two standing subjects.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.