Arkady Martine

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives at the Teixcalaan Empire carrying a political crisis — her predecessor was murdered — and a neurological implant containing that predecessor's memories. A Hugo Award-winning debut that combines a whodunit with a sophisticated examination of imperialism, identity, and the seduction of the metropole.

The Hugo Award-winning sequel to A Memory Called Empire sends Three Seagrass and Mahit beyond the edges of the Teixcalaan Empire to investigate an alien threat — and asks what it means to communicate across the largest possible distance: the gap between species that did not evolve from the same origin.