arkady martine is the author of the teixcalaan series, a multitude of short stories, and various other science fiction, fantasy, & horror. she is also dr. annalinden weller, who is a byzantinist, a climate & energy policy analyst, and a city planner. she is not bored, but she is often tired.
Events & Appearances
Arkady will be a featured speaker at the 2023 Singapore Writer’s Festival, giving a Worldbuilding masterclass on November 25th and appearing on a panel (‘Young Punks: the etymology of ‘punk’ as a subgenre’) on November 26th.
Arkady will be speaking at Yale University’s Modern Writers/Premodern Worlds program, in discussion with Professor Emily Thornberry of the Medieval Studies program.
BLOG POSTS, UPDATES, AND NEWS
Telepresence — WebEx or Zoom or the endlessness of Microsoft Teams work video-meetings — will never not make me think of William Gibson’s The Peripheral. We’re not quite there yet: no Wheelie Boys attending meetings in our place, with our projected faces superimposed on their screens. But right now it certainly feels as if we’re about to get there.
Award season has come around again! This year is a simple year for award eligibility for me: one novel, two short stories. The novel being the one that, as you think about your beloved texts from this past year, I’d really love you to consider.
Hello all of you! First of all: the launch and first few months of having A Memory Called Empire out in the world have been amazing: really a thrilling, enormous, and wonderful experience. Thank every single one of you who has bought a book, come to an event, and/or talked about the book to your friends and community. Please do keep doing so.
like the Byzantine emperor Michael III, you too can receive epistolary communication