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Über das Buch

A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. It also won the 2022 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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Die Quellen liegen im Mittel bei 8,5 aus 492 Bewertungen — noch nicht viele, daher wiegt die Leserstimme 73% und der Rest zieht zum Ranglisten-Durchschnitt von 7,8. So entsteht 8,4. Weitere +0,10 kommen aus dem kleinen Bonus für große Preise.

Leserstimmen

Die beliebtesten Rezensionen auf Hardcover (mit Autorennennung).

• EN

  “But what better way to draw a monstrous thing to its death than to use its functions against itself?  Wow. Damn. This was epic in every sense of the word. This second part of the Teixcalaan dulogy takes all the same themes—imperialism, identity, culture, language—as A Memory Called Empire and tackles them in a pretty different format. Where the first installment purposefully hid its true scope behind the single POV of a fish-out-of-the-water protagonist (save for a few interludes) and kept the reader guessing a lot, here we get multiple POVs and go far beyond the limits of the City. Lsel sta…”

  ★ 5/5wardenred auf Hardcover

• EN

  “Writing this a couple weeks after completion, so forgive me as I try to place my mind back into the world of Teixcalaan and it's carnivorous Outreaching Palms. I'll try to keep this short and casual. In A Desolation Called Peace, Martine continues her microscopic study of culture and language as our protagonist duo Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass are reunited at the frontlines of war and thrust into a first-contact scenario with a race of highly intelligent yet confoundingly violent aliens. I wouldn't say this is a “perfect” sequel, as some led me to believe (we'll get more into why not later…”

  ★ 4/5crownhate auf Hardcover

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