NOTE: Looking for what happened with the July Book club? We were forced to delay it by a week. We’ll be meeting on Friday August 7th and 9:30 PM Central over on our YouTube page to discuss The First Fifteen LIves of Harry August. We just wanted to get next month’s book out there so people can get a jump on it.
For August’s book, one of our patrons, Dadinista elected to use his Patreon perk to select a book for the book club. Dadinista chose Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire.
Here’s the summary:
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn’t an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan’s unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation.The live-streamed discussion of A Memory Called Empire will occur on Friday, August 28th at 9:30 PM Central Time over on our YouTube page. Get the book and get reading! If you’re going to purchase a physical copy through Amazon, we would appreciate it if you do so through our Amazon Affiliate link. The book will cost exactly the same to you, but it will help support Doof! Media.
