![]() ![]() ![]() When A Desolation Called Peace was nominated for a Hugo, I saw several discussions around whether it was different enough from the previous winner to justify another award. ![]() “There’s nothing about these enemies worth talking to-all they do is poison us, and they will poison us forever if we don’t burn them out.” Dzmare and Three Seagrass are faced with the task of trying to negotiate a cease-fire with aliens that they have not seen, let alone communicated with. 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. ![]() A Desolation Called Peace is the second novel by Arkady Martine, and a sequel to 2019’s A Memory Called Empire. ![]()
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