![]() ![]() The focus on empire is not the same, but the willingness to follow a sometimes cruel protagonist is.Īs Traitor dealt with Baru trying to do the right thing from inside the empire, the second novel asks whether that is even possible. Locke lives in a world of corrupt Mafia-esque officials, and is, primarily, fighting against people who would or have done harm to him. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch also asks us to follow a morally dubious protagonist, a Robin Hood-esque rogue who tortures his enemies. (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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