Mahit knows that she must navigate the startlingly different customs and culture of The Empire while also carrying out the directive placed upon her by the council of Lsel, to prevent The Empire from annexing Lsel at all costs and also to uncover what really happened to the previous ambassador. Officials with interesting and involved names like Three Seagrass and Twelve Azalea. Upon her arrival to the capital city of The Empire, Mahit quickly discovers that it is much different than her humble little mining station and is also acutely aware that the officials greeting her treat her with a significant degree of condescension. Yskander's memories can help Mahit only up to a certain point however, as he had not made a debriefing trip back to Lsel for a number of years, creating a gigantic hole in his memory recording between the time of his last reporting and his untimely death. In this case, the imago that is surgically implanted at the end of Mahit's brain stem is none other than that of the previous ambassador to THE EMPIRE, the recently deceased Yskander. She is not alone though, for she is accompanied by a special technology called an imago, a recording of someone else's thoughts and memories that can be fused with another. The circumstances of his death are as yet unknown and newly-appointed ambassador Mahit Dzamare finds herself thrust directly into the heart of a mystery that some would kill to keep a secret.

So when the small independent mining station Lsel is contacted by The Empire to supply another ambassador because the current one is missing, it raises a few eyebrows to say the least.Īs more details arise, the current ambassador is no longer missing, but in fact dead. You see, The Empire considers itself to be the height of superior intellect, artistic achievement, ethics, and overall culture. Over the past thousand years or so the Teixcalaanli Empire has been gradually swallowing up smaller planets and outposts to add to its vastly growing domain, often with no care with regard to the free people now being forced to bend the knee. (Title: A Memory Called Empire / Author: Arkady Martine / Publisher: Tor / Publication Date: March 26, 2019)

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