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Post here if you are reading or planning on reading A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine! No spoilers please!

I read this a couple of months ago and enjoyed it very much, moreso than I would have anticipated. Curious to see others�� responses here and in the spoiler thread.

I'm waiting for the library loan to come in on this one!

I just started this one and I'm really intrigued by the world-building. I'm such a sucker for the sociological and cultural implications of language usage. This is why I love Ann Leckie's Ancillary series so much.

I read it a while back, happy to discuss. I really enjoyed it.

Same! The immediate comparison to Leckie are inevitable I guess but I actually like the way Martine obscures gender with the interesting naming conventions even more than Leckie did with the universal she/her.

I'm excited to read the newest Hugo winner! I've heard it has court intrigue, a murder mystery, and a cool future culture, and that it's very sophisticated and smart. :-)

It wasn't difficult to keep genders straight, given Martine's use of pronouns. Was obscuring gender actually an intent of the author? Why did you like that?

Interesting. I had a hard time keeping the gender of the characters fixed in my mind when they are referred to by names as “Eight Seagrass�� or “Five Poetry.�� This may have been an unintentional impact of the naming convention but I doubt it. Did anyone else experience that with this book?

I also like the fact that the book works as very different genres. I like the political/palace intrigue. And as a “fish out of water�� story.
I wasn’t that big of a fan of the cultural/poetry stuff.

Hey friends! Can we move this level of discussion to the spoiler thread please? Thank you!