Matthew’s Reviews > A Desolation Called Peace > Status Update

Martine really, really likes reminding the reader of how the imperials are cultural chauvinists. I swear Tacitus uses the word barbarian less often in "Germania". Still I can't deny that Martine does a really effective job of hammering home the imperialst culture of space Byzantium, the crippling and uplifting power of institutional memory, and the difference between speaking and communicating.