Arkady Martine

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AnnaLinden Weller (born April 19, 1985 in New York City ) is an American historian ( Byzantine scholar and Armenologist ). She is also a science fiction writer under the pseudonym Arkady Martine . As such, she is known for her first novel, A Memory Called Empire (dt. In the heart of the Empire ) connected to the Hugo Award was awarded for the best novel 2020th

Academic career

Weller graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago in 2007, an M.St. in Classical Armenian Studies from the University of Oxford in 2013 and a PhD in Medieval Byzantine, World and Comparative History from Rutgers University in 2014. Her dissertation was Imagining Pre-Modern Empire: Byzantine Imperial Agents Outside the Metropole . She was Visiting Assistant Professor of History at St. Thomas University from 2014–15, and a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University from 2015–17. Her publications cover Byzantine and medieval Armenian history .

literature

Weller has been publishing science fiction short stories under the name Arkady Martine since 2012.

In the heart of the empire

Martine's first novel, A Memory Called Empire , was published in 2019 and was published in the same year in German translation under the title In the Heart of the Empire . The novel is the first volume in the Teixcalaan series. It is set in a future in which the Teixcalaan Empire rules most of the human space and is preparing to annex the independent Lsel space station. To prevent this, Mahit Dzmare is sent as ambassador by Lsel to the capital of the empire, where she is soon embroiled in the imperial succession crisis. Martine said the novel is in many ways a fictional version of her research on Byzantine imperialism on the Armenian border in the 11th century, most notably the annexation of the Kingdom of Ani .

In The Verge , Andrew Liptak praised the novel as "a brilliant mix of cyberpunk , space opera and political thriller," highlighting Martine's characterization of her characters and her worldbuilding . In Locus , Russell Letson described the novel as "an intoxicating and sometimes challenging mixture of intrigue and anthropological imagination," and valued the author's sense of humor. Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews both awarded their reviews of the novel with one star, noting the ease with which Martine brought the worlds of her "wonderfully crafted diplomatic space opera" to life, and compared the novel to the works of Ann Leckie and Yoon Ha Lee . A Memory Called Empire received the Hugo Award for the best novel 2020.

bibliography

Teixcalaan series
  1. A Memory Called Empire , Tor Books , 2019, ISBN 978-1-250-18643-0 ; Translated into German by Jürgen Langowski as In the Heart of the Empire , Heyne Verlag , 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-31993-6
  2. A Desolation Called Peace , scheduled for release March 2, 2021

Private life

Weller was born and raised in New York City . She lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the writer Vivian Shaw .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Arkady Martine: Histories of Power . In: Locus Online . January 20, 2020. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ AnnaLinden Weller: Curriculum Vitae . In: Uppsala University . Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Vanessa Rose Phin: An Interview with Arkady Martine (en) . In: Strange Horizons , February 25, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019. 
  4. ^ Andrew Liptak: A Memory Called Empire is a brilliant blend of cyberpunk, space opera, and political thriller . In: The Verge , May 18, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019. 
  5. ↑ Letson Russell: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine . In: Locus , May 7, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019. 
  6. ^ A Memory Called Empire . In: Publishers Weekly , November 19, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2019. 
  7. ↑ A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE by Arkady Martine (en) . In: Kirkus Reviews , January 21, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019. 
personal data
SURNAME Martine, Arkady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weller, AnnaLinden (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City