entertaining read, but it has more interest in playing “what-if?” with famous figureheads of 16th-century european history than really posing inca or aztec ideologies in contrast with europe in any more profound sense. it takes some big, hasty jumps to get to its premise of an inca empire 1) traveling to europe and 2) playing european politics. i would’ve liked to linger in the buildup that is more or less hand-waved here for longer.