It’s probably the best worldbuilding I’ve ever read. When you’re reading the book, you can’t imagine being anywhere other than the world where the book is set. It’s so detailed and immersive (and all those considerations of linguistic differences between Lsel and Teixcalaan, hello, that’s the kind of detail I am here for!). One of the best things about this book was the worldbuilding. Also central to the story is Mahit’s cultural liason, Three Seagrass. Only, the Yskandr that Mahit is given is 15 years out of date, and not very much help in navigating the politics of Teixcalaan. Lsel Station uses technology which enables them to save recordings of someone’s consciousness in an imago, and then insert that consciousness into another person, to retain knowledge and memories along long lines. In A Memory Called Empire, Mahit is chosen to be Lsel’s new ambassador to the Teixcalaanli Empire after the unexpected death of the current ambassador, Yskandr. This book has some of the most intricate and immersive worldbuilding I’ve read in a long while (at the end, there’s a whole section on how the Teixcalaanli language works – the linguistics nerd in me was so excited). Because I was genuinely amazed the whole time I was reading it. I think the one word I would choose to describe this book would be awesome (as in inspiring awe). Like a flower turns to the sun or a person takes in oxygen, he said, Teixcalaan reaches again toward the stars.
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