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A Desolation Called Peace

by Arkady Martine

Hugo Award (Best Novel) · 2022 · WinnerLocus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · 2022 · WinnerNebula Award (Best Novel) · 2021 · ShortlistDragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · 2021 · Shortlist
Tor BookssffISBN 9781250186447

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hugo Award (Best Novel)2022Winner
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2022Winner
Nebula Award (Best Novel)2021Shortlist
Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2021Shortlist

About This Book

A fleet of Three Seagrass empire ships battles an alien species that may or may not be communicating. A richly imagined sequel to *A Memory Called Empire* about the nature of language, contact, and war. Winner of the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

About the Author

Arkady Martine is an American science fiction author and Byzantine historian. She won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Hugo Award for Best Novel for A Desolation Called Peace (2022), the second volume of her Teixcalaan series. Her debut A Memory Called Empire (2019) won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Arthur C. Read more →

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