AnnaLinden Weller
Born	(1985-04-19)April 19, 1985 (age 40) New York City, U.S.
Pen name	Arkady Martine
Occupation	Author, historian
Education	University of Chicago (BA) University of Oxford (MSt) Rutgers University (PhD)
Genre	Speculative fiction
Website
www.arkadymartine.net

AnnaLinden Weller (born April 19, 1985),^[1] better known under thepen nameArkady Martine (Ar-KAYdee MarTEEN),^[2] is an American author ofscience fiction literature. Her first novelsA Memory Called Empire (2019) andA Desolation Called Peace (2021), which form theTeixcalaan series, each of which won theHugo Award for Best Novel.

Weller was born and grew up inNew York City.^[1] Her parents areclassical musicians ofRussian Jewish heritage: her mother is a professor ofviolin at theJuilliard School, and her father played for the orchestra of theMetropolitan Opera.^[1] She has described herself as an "assimilated American Jew"^[3][4] 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".^[1]

Weller lives inSanta Fe, New Mexico with her wife, authorVivian Shaw.^[1]

Weller obtained aBachelor of Arts in religious studies from theUniversity of Chicago in 2007; aMaster of Studies in classical Armenian studies from theUniversity of Oxford in 2013; and aPh.D. in medieval Byzantine, global, and comparative history fromRutgers University in 2014.^[1] Her dissertation was titled "Imagining Pre-Modern Empire: Byzantine Imperial Agents Outside the Metropole". She was a visiting assistant professor of history atSt. Thomas University from 2014 to 2015, and she was a postdoctoral researcher atUppsala University from 2015 to 2017. She has published works on the topic ofByzantine andmedieval Armenian history.^[5]

Writing as Arkady Martine, Weller has been publishing science fiction since 2012.^[1][6]

Martine's first novel,A Memory Called Empire (2019), begins herTeixcalaan series.^[1] The novel is set in a future where the Teixcalaanli empire governs most of human space, and it is about to absorb Lsel (apparently from Armenianlsel, 'listen'), an independent miningstation. The Lsel ambassador Mahit Dzmare is sent to the imperial capital to prevent this absorption, and she finds herself embroiled in the empire's succession crisis. Martine said that the book was in many respects a fictional version of her postdoctoral research about Byzantine imperialism on the frontier with Armenia in the 11th century, particularly the annexation of theKingdom of Ani.^[3]

OnThe Verge website, Andrew Liptak praised the novel as a "brilliant blend ofcyberpunk,space opera, and political thriller", highlighting Martine's characterization andworldbuilding.^[7] InLocus magazine, Russell Letson appreciated the novel's "absorbing and sometimes challenging blend of intrigue andanthropological imagination", as well as its sense of humor.^[8]Publishers Weekly andKirkus Reviews magazines both gave the novel a starred review, noting the facility with which Martine brought the worlds of her "gorgeously crafted diplomaticspace opera" to life,^[9] and comparing Martine's novel to the fiction ofAnn Leckie andYoon Ha Lee.^[10]

The second novel in theTeixcalaan series,A Desolation Called Peace was first published in 2021. It picks up several months after the events inA 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.^[11]

• —— (2019).A Memory Called Empire.Tor Books.ISBN 9781250186430.
• —— (2021).A Desolation Called Peace.Tor Books.ISBN 9781250186461.

• —— (2023).Rose/House.Subterranean Press.ISBN 9781645240341.

• "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)

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

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

• "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)

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