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

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A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine · published 2019 · last read 2021-03-26

★★★★☆

A junior ambassador from one alien nation and planet to another, which boasts of a highly complex language and culture? Finding herself scrambling to catch up with her predecessor (rudely murdered, instead of being in her brain as would be appropriate), trying not to share his fate? Sudden conspiracies, even more complex cultural games, plus an assistent she's very much into? Hell yes.