A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine

ecumenopolis,

Planet wide city

inimical

Hostile/ un-inhabited

imago.

Brain link/ neuro link to past lives including detailed images and thoughts

imago—the implanted, integrated memory of one’s predecessor, housed half in her neurology and half in a small ceramic-and-metal machine clasped to her brainstem—wasn’t supposed to take over the host’s nervous system unless the host consented. At the beginning of the partnership, though, consent was complicated. The version of Yskandr inside her mind remembered having a body, and sometimes he used Mahit’s as if it were his own.

Clone siblings?

crèched

Naive

verisimilitude,”