Others: Mostly positive Sequel to A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Whether they succeed or fail could change the fate of Teixcalaan forever.
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Arkady Martine
2019 · 462 pages · 22 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveWon the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no-one will admit his death wasn't accidental - and she might be next. Mahit must navigate the capital's deadly halls of power, while hunting the killer. She must also somehow stop the Empire from annexing her fiercely independent colony. As she sinks deeper into this seductive yet unfamiliar culture, Mahit engages in intrigues of her own. For she's hiding an extraordinary technological secret, one which might destroy her station and its way of life.Or it might save them all from annihilation.
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Ann Leckie
2015 · 359 pages · 4 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveFor a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Atheok Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai - ruler of an empire at war with itself. Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren't good, but that's never stopped her before.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
1991 · 389 pages · 3 reviews
Others: MixedSequel to "Shards of Honor". The two were later published together under the title "Cordelia's Honor".
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Becky Chambers
2018 · 358 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Leaning negativeCenturies after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into the galactic community, but while this has opened doors for many, those who have not yet left for alien cities fear that their carefully cultivated way of life is under threat.
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Hannu Rajaniemi
2010 · 353 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild.
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James S. A. Corey
2009 · 577 pages · 13 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveWhen Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
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Not a fanThis one is the sequel rule. It really didn't do anything bigger or more special than the first book, which I do think it deserved an award, but the second book, I don't think deserves a Hugo. And I don't think it did anything big or special to be able to stand alone the way that the first book did.
Loved itI have two copies of a memory called Empire and a desolation Called Peace because I love that duology
Loved itanother fantastic Sequel and concluding novel of a duy ... I would really recommend this if you love very political leaning stories
Mixedespecially the second book I didn't like the direction it took and again another book that sort of like thesis the ish in the same way that like Babel is not in the same exact like context or whatever but I just was very disconnected from the characters
Loved itin the second book we expand the scope some and it is much more like Space Opera but it is a war that is being fought on this like battlefield of communication so it is a lot about language
Loved itSo yes once more my kind of science fiction about linguistics and communication and interspecies communication and first contact and different states of consciousness. It's it's great. I love this cannot wait for more by Martine.
