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The pen name of AnnaLinden Weller, whose debut novel A Memory Called Empire (2019) won the Hugo Award for Best Novel — and its sequel, A Desolation Called Peace (2021), won it again, an unusual double for a single series' opening two books. Together they form the Teixcalaan series, science fiction built around memory, empire, and the politics of cultural assimilation.