"I feel as if empire is something that is either taken for granted in space opera—uninterrogated, simply present as a fact of worldbuilding—or it is rendered so evil as to be incomprehensibly bad…"
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On how her writings wrestle with the concept of colonialism in “AN INTERVIEW WITH ARKADY MARTINE” in Stage Horizons (2019 Feb 25)
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