(Seth Dickinson refers to Lee in his acknowledgements in Monster.) The series gradually explores his motivation, and the process of him essentially creating a moral philosophy from scratch occupies much of the trilogy. Shuos Jedao is known for being a renowned general who destroyed his own fleet. (Her status as a lesbian woman rather narrows the list of comparable candidates.) In a recent example, Yoon Ha Lee’s series Machineries of Empire also features a protagonist who commits atrocity in the name of a greater cause. Convincingly playing the part, though, requires enabling those techniques the empire uses to spread across the known world.Īs a morally dubious protagonist, Baru is not alone in fantasy fiction. She joins the empire of Masks in an effort to take revenge after the empire colonizes her home country, killing and brainwashing the people she loves.
Baru herself is a math prodigy, skilled in manipulated finances and systems. 30, follows 2015’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
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