A review by scheu
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer

5.0

There must be the seeds of twenty different epic stories in this book. Gorodischer wrote Kalpa Imperial as two volumes twenty-five years ago, but the English translation (by Ursula le Guin) is fairly recent. Early on, I could feel le Guin's style creeping in (not unfavorably), but the author's own air of mystery and myth suffused every page. Very satisfying.