A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1)

Patriotism seemed to derive quite easily from extremity.

benches along one of the corridors nearer to the great ballroom and

THE problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.

The name the man had chosen, it turned out, was Thirty-Six All-Terrain Tundra Vehicle, a revelation that produced in both Mahit and Three Seagrass a kind of stunned silence.

There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger.

MIND is a sort of star-chart in reverse: an assembly of memory, conditioned response, and past action held together in a network of electricity and endocrine signaling, rendered down to a single moving point of consciousness.

Empire unchecked might be inevitable, but Darj Tarats has within him a quiet, determined, and conniving optimism that unchecked is not the only option available, and has not been for some time.

Poetry is for the desperate, and for people who have grown old enough to have something to say.

A MIND is a sort of star-chart in reverse: an assembly of memory, conditioned response, and past action held together in a network of electricity and endocrine signaling, rendered down to a single moving point of consciousness.