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A murder mystery in the heart of a space opera

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

April 25, 2020 by Dome'Loki 4 Comments

I brought this book home in March 2019.  It was Mysterious Galaxy’s featured speculative fiction hardcover pick for the month.  Over the past year this book kept getting recommended; by fellow Cannonballers, articles, and it is nominated for a Hugo award.  That nomination finally pushed A Memory Called Empire to the top of my TBR. In a normal timeline, I would have torn through this book in a matter of days.  Instead it took a few weeks.  This book pushed all the right buttons; excellent sci-fi world […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: arkady martine, cbr12, Dome'Loki, Fiction, hugo nominated, Hugo Nominee, LGBTQ romance, sci-fi

Dome'Loki's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: arkady martine, cbr12, Dome'Loki, Fiction, hugo nominated, Hugo Nominee, LGBTQ romance, sci-fi ·
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Scary, but so good, and so smart.

August 20, 2016 by narfna 4 Comments

Sometimes you read a book and you’re like, the hell did I just read? And then other times you’re like THE HELL DID I JUST READ. This is the second one. This is the last novel I had to read before I could vote in this year’s Hugos. I probably wouldn’t have read it for a couple of years otherwise because the older I get and the more fantasy books I’ve got crammed all up in my head, the harder it is for me to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, hugo nominated, n.k. jemisin, narfna, the broken earth, the fifth season

narfna's CBR8 Review No:108 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, hugo nominated, n.k. jemisin, narfna, the broken earth, the fifth season ·
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