In The Memory of Babel, Christelle Dabos brings readers back into the richly imagined world of the Mirror Visitor quartet, as our mirror-traveling heroine Ophelia finally takes action. After spending two years and seven months on her home ark Anima, she infiltrates Babel under an alias. Babel, a cosmopolitan and technologically advanced ark, appears flawless atop the universe—only for social unrest simmering beneath the surface to surface.

Ophelia’s unique gift as a Reader becomes vital as she guards a secret that could unlock the mysteries of both past and future. The tension rises as she must evade dangerous adversaries and confront the sweeping consequences of power, memory, and identity. Christelle Dabos crafts a tapestry of steampunk intrigue, shifting loyalties, and emotional resilience in this penultimate volume.

Christelle Dabos’s The Memory of Babel deepens the themes of memory, information, and societal fragility. Beneath Babel’s veneer of order lies fear of replacement, echoing the instability of memory and collective history. Dabos’s powerful world-building, filled with automata, enchanted manuscripts, mirror magic, and arcane prophecies, immerses the reader in a world where knowledge both illuminates and deceives. As Ophelia navigates political maneuvering, emotional turbulence, and the weight of prophecy, Dabos explores how secrets can shape destiny—and how even the slightest spark of memory can change the fate of whole arks¹.