historical-fantasy
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Unpacking the brilliance of R.F Kuang’s Babel ★★★★★ Spoiler free I think I’m in love with R.F. Kuang. Not in a weird stalker way, but in an “I want to live inside her brain” kind of way. Her ability to take enormous, nuanced concepts and weave them into metaphorical fantasy narratives is brilliant. It’s not
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Light spoilers for The Dragon Republic ahead They came bearing gifts of medicine, technological progress, and God. In The Dragon Republic, the Hesperians arrive in Nikan with promises of enlightenment, science, and salvation. All Rin — and the fragile Republic — had to do, is fall in line. Sound familiar? Kuang draws unmistakable parallels between
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