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A Memory Called EmpireArkady Martine
Political space opera with a poet's ear: identity, empire, and a knife in every conversation.
9.2/ 10The Weight of Ashunknown, & worth findingIslington-grade prose three chapters in, 4k followers, no agent yet. Read it before everyone else.
8.7/ 10The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le GuinStill the high-water mark. A thought experiment that never stops being a story.
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A Memory Called EmpireArkady Martine
Political space opera with a poet's ear: identity, empire, and a knife in every conversation.
9.2/ 10The Weight of Ashunknown, & worth findingIslington-grade prose three chapters in, 4k followers, no agent yet. Read it before everyone else.
8.7/ 10The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le GuinStill the high-water mark. A thought experiment that never stops being a story.
9.6/ 10This Is How You Lose the Time WarAmal El-Mohtar & Max GladstoneTwo rival agents fall in love across time in letters of fire and frost. Lush, strange, unforgettable.
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