Download PDF A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1) By Arkady Martine
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Ebook About Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelA Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of GeekAn NPR Favorite Book of 2019A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” NomineeA 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 JusticeAmbassador 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 SkyAnd coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace!At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Book A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1) Review :
Every year there are a couple dozen speculative fiction/scifi novels that are promoted as 'the next thing' and pushed as if they were the second coming. Of those, with luck, a small handful will actually turn out to be decent reads. Just as an example of hype efforts, when I wrote this review there were 24 reviews posted for this book, only four were verified purchases, the others, I assume were free/promotional copies. ReviewMeta, a site for checking the veracity of reviews, failed the overall review with a Warn in these four categories: Unverified Purchases, Incentivized Reviews, Phrase Repetition, and Overlapping Review History and and a Fail in the Suspicious Reviewers category.A couple of centuries ago I was in a club to catch the 'band of the moment'. The PR machine had been promoting them overtime and in the last few minutes before they took the stage the joint was electric with anticipation. The place was packed, all the cool kids were there, and when the first guitar riffs rolled across the crowd it was electric. Several songs in I realized they weren't really that good. Looking back I realize they weren't bad, but the 'next thing' they were not. I never really forgave the band after that, I felt betrayed, but the hype machine was just doing its job even if that meant setting unrealistic expectations that were almost impossible for the band to meet. Loading down Arkady Martine's credible debut effort with that level of expectation is almost certainly setting her and us readers up for a fall.Rant is over, now on to the review. In the far future a small space station on the fringes of a large empire that threatens their independence, receives word that the station's ambassador to the empire has died and a replacement is requested ASAP. A young, just out of school, graduate is picked for the job. The empire is an ancient one with a depth of culture that (purposely) overawes the small surrounding cultures into feeling like uncultured rustics. Mahit, the new appointee is thoroughly versed in the ins and out of the poetic language and culture that exhibits so much intimidating depth that many of the best and brightest of the surrounding powers dream of being able to go and live what is overwhelmingly considered the seat of civilized society. Mahit shares that dream and nurses a serious inferiority complex throughout the book that interferes with her desire to serve her home. Upon arrival at the capital she finds out that the previous ambassador was almost certainly assassinated, she makes friends, suffers through a couple of assassination attempts upon her own life, and is quickly embroiled in escalating civil insurrection aimed at overthrowing the emperor and installing a contender from one of the several rival factions. To add to that complexity, plans are being made by the empire to invade her home station and attach it to the empire. Circumstances gradually move our heroine from the fringes of the action closer and closer to the very center of the whirlpool that threatens to pull in her, her home, friends, and the whole of the empire. Well drawn appealing characters, especially Mahit and her imperial liaison, Three Seagrass, combined with smooth writing, excellent world building, usually sharp dialogue (minus occasional regressions), and with only vague writing on the infrequent action sequences hindering this excellent read. I look forward to Ms. Martine's next book. I am 150 pages in...and just don't get the hype? It has all of the political posturing of Leckie's Ancillary books...but with none of the fun. I don't mind being challenged if there are rewards along the way...but 150 pages in and I remain bored and completely unimpressed.The writing, while technically competent, feels somewhat cold and distant...much like the world and the characters she describes. All of the social formalities (described and then internally analyzed, ad nauseam, by the main character) are excruciatingly formal...prim, proper, and oh-so "civilized". It is exhausting and - as a result - it was difficult to find the characters likeable or even relatable. They posture and pose, and pretend to second-guess everything that is said and done. She tries so hard for nuance and intrigue that it quickly becomes excruciating. Maybe if we had a reason to care about these characters or what was happening in their world, then perhaps their internal machinations might not feel like such a chore to wade through. As it was, I just kept saying (and often out loud): "Who cares??"There is a good bit of focus on the grammar and linguistics of this culture. If you find such topics to be of interest, this may appeal to you...but it was just more for me to skim over as quickly as possible. And then there are the character names like "Fifteen Engine" and "Three Seagrass". Every citizen has a number and a random object combined for their name. Awful. That last one is a main character and every time her name popped up, all I could think was "Sea-three-pee-oh".The one potentially interesting aspect of the book is the idea of an imago, which is "the implanted, integrated memory of one's predecessor, housed half in her neurology and half in a small ceramic-and-metal machine clasped to her brainstem..." The imago can communicate with the host, share memories and experiences to help them out with complex tasks, etc. More-or-less, it's like the Trill from Deep Space Nine...but instead of an organic creature which houses the living memories from its previous hosts, it's a computer chip containing an interactive simulation of said hosts.Kind of a cool idea, but then she [warning: minor spoiler] loses the connection with her imago on page 35 and that's it. All of that potential to develop the relationship between herself and her predecessor - as they start to become one functioning entity, with all of the trials and challenges which that would inevitably bring - just evaporates into thin air. And we are left alone with the main character and the endless questions bouncing around her otherwise unoccupied head.When a new author is compared to Banks or Leckie, that's a lot to live up to. And I respect her attempt to do so...I just did not enjoy it whatsoever. 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