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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O'brien, Eman Abdelhadi
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
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By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
[T]he emperor is he who is a foreigner to each of his subjects, and only through foreign eyes and ears could the empire manifest its existence to the Kublai. In languages incomprehensible to the Khan, the envoys related information heard in languages incomprehensible to them...Newly arrived and totally ignorant of the Levantine languages, Marco Polo could express himself only with gestures, leaps, cries of wonder and of horror, animal barkings or hootings, or with objects he took from his knapsacks - ostrich plumes, pea-shooters, quartzes - which he arranged in front of him like chessmen.
reading Invisible Cities just after A Memory Called Empire, with modern-sf conceptions of empire fresh in my mind, really brings out passages like this. absolutely /loving/ the richness of Calvino's prose and his imagination of the fantastical. and besides, cultural contact, meaning, and the challenge of communication are all themes I adore
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but …
@jzacsh the most beautiful nonfiction i've ever read - you won't regret it!
a fun read with beautiful, full worldbuilding and compelling politicking, and plenty of space opera to keep you from putting it down. for me, I didn't find it very striking as a plot or character book, though there's plenty of both, and didn't get much out of it as an ideas book (compared to other SF I've read that plays with self, empire, and language) that said, I do love books that know how to interact with language! linguist-me was left satisfied!
A Memory Called Empire is a 2019 science fiction novel, the debut novel by Arkady Martine. It follows Mahit Dzmare, …
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, …
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, …
In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby …
Two women set out through the haze of social and environmental collapse in search of fertile soil. As they travel …