Arkady Martine

AnnaLinden Weller (born April 19, 1985), better known under the pen name Arkady Martine , is an American author of science fiction literature. Her first novels, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace (2021), each of which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, form the Teixcalaan series.

Early and personal life Weller was born and grew up in New York City. and noted that, in the 1930s, Jews who moved to the United States from Europe "were basically playing classical music and inventing the Anglophone discipline of science fiction at the same time".

Fiction writing Writing as Arkady Martine, Weller has been publishing science fiction since 2012. She has written that C. J. Cherryh is the author who has most strongly influenced her SF writing: "C. J. Cherryh is how I learned to write politics."

A Memory Called Empire

Martine's first novel, A Memory Called Empire (2019), begins her Teixcalaan series. In Locus magazine, Russell Letson appreciated the novel's "absorbing and sometimes challenging blend of intrigue and anthropological imagination", as well as its sense of humor. Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews magazines both gave the novel a starred review, noting the facility with which Martine brought the worlds of her "gorgeously crafted diplomatic space opera" to life, and comparing Martine's novel to the fiction of Ann Leckie and Yoon Ha Lee.

A Desolation Called Peace

The second novel in the Teixcalaan series, A Desolation Called Peace was first published in 2021. It picks up several months after the events in A Memory Called Empire. Mahit has returned to Lsel station; Three Seagrass has received a promotion, but she is bored on Teixcalaan; and the new emperor has assumed the throne. Mahit is trying to process the events in the previous novel, when she is suddenly thrown into a series of political intrigues; these intrigues compel her to leave Lsel Station alongside Three Seagrass, who arrives at the station to escort Mahit to a remote region of space. Their mission is to attempt to communicate with a species of incomprehensible aliens to prevent a catastrophic war. Meanwhile, on Teixcalaan, political schemes are brewing, and the young heir to the imperial throne plays a central role.

Awards and nominations

+ Awards and honors Year Work Award Category Result Ref. 2019 "The Hydraulic Emperor" WSFA Small Press Award — A Memory Called Empire Dragon Award Science Fiction Novel Nebula Award Novel 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award — Compton Crook Award — Hugo Award Novel Locus Award First Novel 2021 A Desolation Called Peace BSFA Award Novel Dragon Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nebula Award Novel 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award — Hugo Award Novel Lambda Literary Award Speculative Fiction Locus Award Science Fiction Novel 2024 Rose/House Hugo Award Novella Locus Award Novella "Three Faces of a Beheading" Shirley Jackson Award Short Fiction 2025 Hugo Award Short Story Locus Award Short Story

Works Teixcalaan series

Short fiction

Novella

Short stories "Lace Downstairs" (2012) "Nothing Must Be Wasted" (2014) "Adjuva" (2015) "City of Salt" (2015) "When the Fall Is All That's Left" (2015) "How the God Auzh-Aravik Brought Order to the World Outside the World" (2016) "'Contra Gravitatem (Vita Genevievis)'" (2016) "All the Colors You Thought Were Kings" (2016) "Ekphrasis" (2016) "Ruin Marble" (2017) "The Hydraulic Emperor" (2018) "Object-Oriented" (2018) "Just a Fire" (as by A. Martine) (2018) "Faux Ami" (as by A. Martine) (2019) "Labbatu Takes Command of the Flagship Heaven Dwells Within" (2019) "Life and a Day" (as by A. Martine) (2019) "A Desolation Called Peace" (excerpt) (2020) "A Being Together Amongst Strangers" (2020) "Three Faces of a Beheading", Uncanny Magazine (2024)

Poetry "Cloud Wall" (2014) "Abandon Normal Instruments" (2016)

Nonfiction "Everyone's World Is Ending All the Time: Notes on Becoming a Climate Resilience Planner at the Edge of the Anthropocene" (2019)

Reviews "Testament by Hal Duncan" (2015) "Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson" (2016) "The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin" (2017) "The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander" (2018)