Science Fiction· United States
A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady MartineAggregate Editorial Score69/100
★Hugo Award
Published 2022496 pagesEnglish
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Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace (2022) stands as one of the most significant works of science fiction of its era. Three-Seagrass and Mahit Dzmare investigate alien contact—a first-contact situation with an incomprehensible species—in the sequel to A Memory Called Empire. Martine's second Hugo Award winner deepens the universe and its meditation on empire and communication. Themes of first contact, empire, communication run through the work. The book has received recognition from Hugo Award 2022.
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Speculative fiction exploring technology, space, the future, and society.
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