Series
Teixcalaan
Arkady Martine · 2 novels · 2019–2021
Arkady Martine's space opera duology follows Mahit Dzmare, ambassador from the small, independent Lsel Station, as she arrives in the vast Teixcalaanli Empire to investigate her predecessor's death and finds herself caught up in the empire's own succession crisis. A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace pair court intrigue with Mahit's conflicted, outsider fascination with an empire she can't help admiring.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Teixcalaan at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
2 novels
1 author
reads like:science fictionpolitical intrigueother star systemsfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- A Memory Called Empiredarkest · calmest
- A Desolation Called Peacebrightest · most intense