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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to …
A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 1
In his four-volume …
Magic's Pawn is a wondrous sci-fi fantasy adventure that centers around Vanyel Ashkevron, young, inexperienced …
together w the Shelved By Genre podcast/bookclub
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest …
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities …
Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a …
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities …
[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, …
דאָס ערשטן בוך װאָס איך װיל לײנען אַף ייִדיש איז, אַװדאי, דאָס קװירסטע
