Arkady Martine in Conversation with Amal El-Mohtar

I had the great pleasure of chatting for an hour with Arkady Martine, author of the Hugo-award-winning A Memory Called Empire and the forthcoming A Desolation Called Peace, under the auspices of the Brooklyn Book Festival and NYU's 370 Jay Project and NYU Skirball.

[sanchalighosh]

I absolutely geeked out over this video. Last year I read A Memory Called Empire and haven't stopped gushing over it since then. And this year, This is How You Lose The Time War and A Desolation Called Peace are easily on my top 5 books of the year. It was so good to hear the background stories of both those books.

[jonathannevair]

Wonderful conversation, so rich and substantial. Thank you for posting this. As an academic who is dipping a toe into science fiction writing this was an absolute treat from start to finish (and especially the early discussion regarding the academy and affect). Martine's A Memory Called Empire was my favorite SF of 2019. I can't wait for A Desolation of Peace to release.

[eerbrev]

This was great! I'll have to rewatch. some of these lines of thought slot into some of the worldbuilding I'm doing for a new story so it resonates quite strongly.

[madhupramod]

Loved this conversation with two of my favorite writers!
Is there a list of references to the books and authors discussed here?

[CreatorInMicro]

Thank you so much! Two of my favorite authors talking about what they love.

Please add a comment with the name of that sci-fi story from the 50s that was discussed around 47-49 minutes in.

[Cugelclever]

Why would anyone want to read anything written by an ivory tower elitist?