“The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I’ve read in a long time.”

Aet in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre.

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.

That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.

Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.

Radiohead’s already got their yachts and mansions. Sharon Osbourne already has her empire

Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.