Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. But the Citadel's disappearance still extends chains of grief and regret all the way into the fraught atmosphere of the Imperial Court and this casual summoning of the past might have world-shattering consequences. Meanwhile, on a small isolated space station, an engineer obsessed with the past works on a machine that will send her thirty years back, to the height of the Citadel's power. But now the empire itself is under siege, on the verge of a war against an enemy that turns their own mindships against them and the Empress, who once gave the order to raze the Citadel, is in desperate need of its weapons. Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai Viet Empire, the Citadel disappeared and was never seen again. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder a perfect meld between cutting-edge technology and esoteric sciences-its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and undetectable and deadly. Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard's award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration He stroked a long black whisker that decorated his.
Although one warrior went by, the other remained rooted to the spot. The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard The tea master bowed, and politely step into the gutter to let the fearsome ones pass. Deeply affecting and always entertaining, The Tea Master and the Detective should be your next read. This is the opposite of a closed-room mystery, an open-space mystery which pushes the boundaries of A.I-as-person and genius-as-misanthropic-detective.
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