Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan Series, returns with an astonishing new novella. Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with. A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every load-bearing beam and fine marble tile with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else altogether. But now Deniau’s been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect’s will: all his possessions and files and sketches are confined in its archives, and their only keeper is Rose House itself. Rose House, and one other. Dr. Selene Gisil, one of Deniau’s former...

Награда „Хюго“ за най-добър роман, 2020 г. Посланичката Махит Дзмаре пристига в столицата на империята Тейкскалан, която обхваща безброй звездни системи. Там научава за смъртта на предишния посланик от тяхната малка, но несломимо независима Станция на миньори. Никой обаче не е готов да признае, че тази смърт не се дължи на злополука… или че Махит може да стане следващата жертва. Тя трябва да се справи със съблазните на империята, да се впусне в свои интриги и да крие опасна технологична тайна, която може да означава края на Станцията… или да я предпази от гибел. Най-добрата научнофантастична книга на годината! Goodreads

Премия «Хьюго» за лучший роман. Премия «Локус» за лучший НФ роман. Финалист премий «Небьюла», ДрагонКон, Артура Ч. Кларка, Goodreads и премии Британской ассоциации НФ. Лучшая книга года по версии Publishers Weekly, Bookpage и Amazon.com Инопланетная армада появляется на границе пространства космической империи Тейкскалаан. Командующий имперским флотом отчаянно пытается наладить дипломатические отношения с превосходящими силами захватчиков. Теперь Махит Дзмаре сталкивается с невыполнимой задачей ― начать общение с враждебным существом. Ее провал гарантирует миллионы смертей в бесконечной войне. А успех предотвратит распад Тейкскалаана и обеспечит продолжение хищнической имперской...

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Whether they succeed or fail could change the fate of Teixcalaan forever.

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...

Жители космических станций много поколений держат дистанцию с захватнической империей Тейкскалаан. Внезапный запрос выслать в столицу нового посла поднимает много вопросов. Махит Дзмаре прибывает на планету-город, где все буквально пронизано поэзией, что драпирует интриги и соперничество. Имаго – вживленная в мозг Махит память прежнего посла – должен помочь ей распутать клубок связей, договоренностей и афер предшественника, но сбой имаго-аппарата ставит все под угрозу. Теперь Махит придется во всем разбираться самостоятельно.

This anthology includes 120 authors—who contributed 230 works totaling approximately 1.1 million words of fiction. These pieces all originally appeared in 2014, 2015, or 2016 from writers who are new professionals to the SFF field, and they represent a breathtaking range of work from the next generation of speculative storytelling. All of these authors are eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016. We hope you’ll use this anthology as a guide in nominating for that award as well as a way of exploring many vibrant new voices in the genre.