Cover art of the novel, A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine. Art shows a supplicant approaches an emperor, seated in a massive throne styled as a sunburst.
I've decided—and I hope that Three Seagrass and @byzantienne.bsky.social might approve—that my Teixcalaanli name is 0.62 Teapot. #AMemoryCalledEmpire
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Finished reading "A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine. Great work, kind of reminds me of Guy Gavriel Kay's "Sailing to Sarantium". Brilliant writing, definitely worth tracking down & reading. #reading #BookSky #AMemoryCalledEmpire
Emperor Six Direction of the Teixcalaanli Empire.
#AMemoryCalledEmpire
I wouldn't have called it before #Andor season 2, but I want Tony Gilroy to adapt #AMemoryCalledEmpire.
A wooden table on top of which sits two books, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire, John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build A Nest In, and a mushroom journal. These are stacked next to a cup of black coffee and an egg avocado toast
Spent the morning before heading into work taking notes on first chapters of novels. It's the one thing that has kicked my tail more than any part of the writing process. #someoneyoucanbuildanestin #amemorycalledempire Not pictured: The Fifth Season, Babel, Daindreth's Assassin #amwriting
Y'all said this was like the Locked Tomb Series. When I read the first book I was like: what? Now that I finished the second book, I kinda get it. Overall, I really enjoyed the second book a lot more #amemorycalledempire #adesolationcalledpeace #thelockedtomb #scifibookd #booksky
I've just started to read "A Desolation Called Peace" by @byzantienne.bsky.social, the follow-up to the excellent #AMemoryCalledEmpire. #scifisky
Which obviously means I have to give myself a Teixcalaani name.
Say hello to Four Hellebore, or 'Winter', if you know me well 🤩
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing lineup of six characters: 1. A broad shouldered, broad faced rather young Latino or South American Indigenous man, wearing his hair up a bun, a futuristic device over his eyes, and a orange and white robe with rounded off square decoration. It looks both futuristic and vaguely Maya inspired 2. A petite, sharp faced woman of the same ethnicity wearing the same outfit and device. Her hair is in a braid. She is looking up to the woman to her right 3. A tall, sharp faced, rather thin white woman, short, curly reddish brown hair, wearing a futuristic asymetric greyish blue jacket and an elegant suit trouser. The clothing is clearly from a different culture. She looks to the left 4. Middle aged white man, short dirty blonde hair, smiling. He wears a slightly unbuttoned futuristic shirt and a tight trouser 5. A short and thin elderly man, wearing jewelry and robes somewhat reminiscent of Mayan emporers 6. A tall woman of the same ethnicity fully in white
A Memory Called Empire lineup
Trying to design all these different outfits and character looks was so fun. Spent so much time on this
#scifi #AMemoryCalledEmpire #TeixcalaanSeries #QueerSciFi
