"I wanted to think about empires that were conquest-oriented, that were war-and-sacrifice oriented, and that led me to the Mexica - the Triple Alliance of the Aztecs," she tells me in an email conversation. Martine's Teixcalaanli Empire has overtones of Byzantium and the Aztecs, among other cultures.
It's the story of an ambassador from a small, independent space station on the edge of a huge, devouring galactic empire, who arrives in the imperial capital and is almost immediately launched on a wild ride of intrigue, courtly manners, poetry and plotting. How?īefore she was a novelist (and occasional NPR contributor), Arkady Martine was a Byzantine historian and an apprentice city planner - and that expertise is on display in her new book A Memory Called Empire. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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