🏷️ Identity Crisis

3 entries tagged with this trope

The Space Between Worlds

Micaiah Johnson · 2020

You can only visit parallel earths where your counterpart is dead. Cara is valuable because she's died in 372 of 380 worlds. A brilliant commentary on race, class, and expendability.

📖 Book⭐ 4.1🌶️

Translation State

Ann Leckie · 2023

Three storylines converge around the alien Presger and their translators. What does it mean to be a person? Ann Leckie asks the big questions with her signature precision.

📖 Book⭐ 4.2🌶️

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine · 2019

An ambassador from a small space station arrives at a vast galactic empire with a dead predecessor's memories implanted in her mind. Poetry, politics, and identity collide.