![]() ![]() ![]() Since opponents, from within and without, create their own calendars to depower the Hexarchate’s weapons and drive their own, much of the government and military’s work involves suppressing “heresies” and “calendrical rot”.Īs in Ninefox Gambit, this is a powerful metaphor for the coercive power of an authoritarian regime. The Hexarchate, a repressive space empire, derives its power from “calendrical weapons”, which rely on the acceptance of a particular calendar to power devices that bend and break the laws of physics. Clarke-nominated Ninefox Gambit, continues its predecessor’s heady combination of space opera, fantasy, Korean folklore and mathematics. Raven Stratagem, the second volume in Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire trilogy, and sequel to the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. ![]()
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