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A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine. This was terrific - it may have catapulted all the way to my favorite 2019 novel, or if not, is at least the most broadly recommendable, compared with Gideon or Raven Tower, which I would expect more people not to like. If you're always on the lookout for Vorkosigan readalikes, if you're frustrated with the Vorkosigan books on gender grounds, if you like Goblin Emperor and/or Provenance, definitely check this out.

I read it without remembering anything I might have heard about it, except that it was some sort of space opera; I thought that was a great reading experience. However, I'll put a little more information behind a cut, if you're not quite sold yet. And then I'll sing "Twinkle, Twinkle", and then do a second cut with further vague but spoilery feelings. First cut: ( Read more... )

And now, a musical interlude, or what we used to call "spoiler space".

Twinkle twinkle little star,
how I wonder what you are,
up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky,
twinkle twinkle little star,
how I wonder what you are.

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