I brought this book home in March 2019. It was Mysterious Galaxy’s featured speculative fiction hardcover pick for the month. Over the past year this book kept getting recommended; by fellow Cannonballers, articles, and it is nominated for a Hugo award. That nomination finally pushed A Memory Called Empire to the top of my TBR. In a normal timeline, I would have torn through this book in a matter of days. Instead it took a few weeks. This book pushed all the right buttons; excellent sci-fi world […]
A murder mystery in the heart of a space opera
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

