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Mahit is a young woman from Lsel Station, a small civilization of self-sustaining space stations that have just barely stayed in an alliance--instead of as a vassal state--with the vast Teixcalaani Empire. Maintaining this position would be hard enough, but to make matters worse Mahit's Imago of the last ambassador (an imprint of his personality and knowledge, which was intended to help her navigate this alien political scene) is malfunctioning and fifteen years out of date. And that's before al
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Amazing book. I highly suspect it will be on the Hugo ballot this year and it deserves to be there.
Lots of fascinating ideas, including language, culture, technology and how it affects personality and language and culture. All with great characters, a fascinating mystery and a lurking threat that I assume will be in the next book. May 2021 seems a very long way away.
Lots of fascinating ideas, including language, culture, technology and how it affects personality and language and culture. All with great characters, a fascinating mystery and a lurking threat that I assume will be in the next book. May 2021 seems a very long way away.
It took a little while for me to get into the story - there's a lot of worldbuilding happening as the story opens, and even though it's nicely woven into the human stories, rather than reading like an encyclopedia, it did make for some dense reading.
Once I was more comfortable in this universe, I was off to the races! Intrigue, technology that raises some compelling questions, cool characters, and a city both gorgeous and threatening. The story wraps up the main threads while leaving some questi ...more
Once I was more comfortable in this universe, I was off to the races! Intrigue, technology that raises some compelling questions, cool characters, and a city both gorgeous and threatening. The story wraps up the main threads while leaving some questi ...more
Jan 08, 2019
Sarah
marked it as to-read-already-own
May 23, 2019
Jeffrey
marked it as did-not-finish
Jun 25, 2019
Words
marked it as to-read
Jan 29, 2020
Gaijinmama
marked it as to-read
Mar 29, 2020
Tani
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it was amazing
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