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Content warning thoughts on teixcalaanli succession laws

commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

For some reason, whenever I read the name Thirty Larkspur, I assume he is a women and get confused about the pronouns in the following few sentences

dunno why, his seems to be the only teixcalaanli name that feels this intuitively 'gendered' to me

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

He's associated three people to the Imperium

A Memory Called Empire by  (Page 140)

thanks, Robert Harris, for making me unable to read imperium not Latin whenever it occurs in English text. But then ig that's the same, here? As in, what's meant is the power to command by itself and act as the state, which the emporer holds, and not the empire or anything like 'Imperium' usually means in German

(though i wonder if they were as horny about it — but also i just realised the name's similar with Darj Tarat, and seems it's not a coincidence: Petros Getadarj was Armenian, and Lsel's language (or at least phonitactics) are inspired by Armenian according to Martine's short language description at the end of the book!)

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own (And for Grigor Pehlavuni and Petros Getadarj, across the centuries.)

A Memory Called Empire by  (Page 7)

this is such a good dedication for this book

reviewed UTOPIALES 2019 by Jo Walton

Hugo Bellagamba, Christian Leourier, Jacques Barberi, Oliver Paquet, Sylvie Denis, Mel Andoryss, Jo Walton, Tade Thompson, Ophélie Bruneau, Michael Roch, Nicolas Martin, Silène Edgar, Jean-Laurent Del Socorro, Ada Palmer, Claude Ecken: UTOPIALES 2019 (Paperback, ACTUSF) No rating

Coder, décoder : un processus essentiel à la vie, à nos relations sociales, à nos …

Neurostar (Jacques Barbéri)

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I don't think I understood this one at all (at least partially because of language issues, but also does this ever have a lot of moving parts for a 25-page story)

Content warning thoughts on teixcalaanli succession laws

commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

Content warning thoughts on teixcalaanli succession laws

commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

Content warning Teixcalaanli reaction to imagos

commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire (Hardcover, 2019, Tor Books)

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …

Content warning Nineteen Adze's epiphet

reviewed UTOPIALES 2019 by Jo Walton

Hugo Bellagamba, Christian Leourier, Jacques Barberi, Oliver Paquet, Sylvie Denis, Mel Andoryss, Jo Walton, Tade Thompson, Ophélie Bruneau, Michael Roch, Nicolas Martin, Silène Edgar, Jean-Laurent Del Socorro, Ada Palmer, Claude Ecken: UTOPIALES 2019 (Paperback, ACTUSF) No rating

Coder, décoder : un processus essentiel à la vie, à nos relations sociales, à nos …

Une faute de goût (Christian Léourier)

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This one's fun, and not too long. Also I'm jelous of the food now (it's about an alien species which mainly communicates through things humans can only perceive as taste, so 'talking' means 'creating elaborate dishes')

but also it ends so sad, and unrevokable? i like it though

Hugo Bellagamba, Christian Leourier, Jacques Barberi, Oliver Paquet, Sylvie Denis, Mel Andoryss, Jo Walton, Tade Thompson, Ophélie Bruneau, Michael Roch, Nicolas Martin, Silène Edgar, Jean-Laurent Del Socorro, Ada Palmer, Claude Ecken: UTOPIALES 2019 (Paperback, ACTUSF) No rating

Coder, décoder : un processus essentiel à la vie, à nos relations sociales, à nos …

have read a few of the novellas in here already, but mostly this has been lying around here.

iirc i mostly got it since more non-english fiction + a new story by Ada Palmer sounded appealing