![]() ![]() An urgent call for a first-contact specialist ropes in two characters from the first book: Three Seagrass, a Teixcaalan information officer, and Mahit Dzmare, Lsel’s ambassador to the Empire. Teixcalaan is currently in the earliest stages of a war against an unknown enemy on the edges of Lsel space, and it becomes increasingly clear that they are outmatched both in firepower and viciousness. Like its predecessor, it won the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.ĭesolation returns to the machinations of the Teixcalaan Empire, a massive galaxy-spanning power that blends Byzantium and Aztec cultures together, and the struggles of Lsel Station, a small polity on the outskirts of the Empire’s borders that struggles to maintain a fragile independence. Cover of A Desolation Called Peace, art by Jaime JonesĪ Desolation Called Peace is the second novel by Arkady Martine, and a sequel to 2019’s A Memory Called Empire. ![]()
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