A Memory Called Empire

[Rynn]

I liked it, it's a nice example of social sci-fi where the technology exists either as set dressing or to support the story of the social dynamics. Usually in sci fi when you have a big, powerful society next to a poorer one it's presented as everyone in the poorer society being plucky individuals who hate the bigger society. But Arkady instead explored the complex and uncomfortable situation where it's possible for people from a poorer nation to be infatuated by the hegemony next door even while their nation suffers from the interaction. A situation that a lot of people in the world now, and throughout history, can probably relate to.