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Sto caricando le informazioni... Tea and Murder: Stories of the Xuya Universe: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls & The Tea Master and the Detectivedi Aliette de Bodard
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) coprime | Jun 12, 2023 |  In The Citadel of the Weeping Pearls, it's thirty years after Empress Mi Hiep quarreled with her daughter, the Bright Princess Ngoc Minh, and Ngoc Minh took her followers, created the Citadel of Weeping Pearls, and pursued studies not approved of at the Imperial Court. This led to the ability to teleport, and weapons small enough to be smuggled anywhere, yet devastatingly powerful. Alarmed by these weapons, the Empress sent a fleet to destroy the Citadel, and the Citadel disappeared. Now the Empire is threatened, and those weapons would be valuable. Also, the Empress is now quite old, and perhaps has started to realize that Ngoc Minh would be a better choice of heir than the Bright Princess's brother is. Mi Hiep has sent General Soo Nuoc to find the Citadel--until his search is interrupted by the disappearance of Bach Cuc, Grand Master of Design Harmony, who was on the track of the Citadel's technology, and perhaps the Citadel. What follows is a complex and fascinating story, grounded in family ties, the ties of tradition, the ties of personal connection and obligation. It's told in four separate voices and viewpoints, and the characters are beautifully developed. The Tea Master and the Detective is a very different story, a Holmes pastiche, extremely well done. The Shadow's Child is Mindship, a former military transport injured in the war, and now earning a meager living brewing mind-altering drugs to assist space travelers when their ships enter the Deep Spaces, and for other purposes. Long Chau, an abrasive, eccentric scholar, walks into her office seeking a brew to enable her to travel into the Deep Spaces seeking a corpse, to further her research. The Shadow's Child quickly concludes that Long Chau is already so precariously balanced with her existing drug load that the Mindship will have to also be the scholar's transport for the trip--an unpleasant but fairly simple assignment, and Long Chau can pay. Unfortunately, the corpse they find is a murder victim, and neither of them can simply walk away from the case, especially once The Shadow's Child understands what Long Chau knew from the beginning--the Magistrate's office is not going to regard it as a priority or give it any serious investigation. It's a nicely done, very enjoyable Holmes pastiche, and I'd love to see more with these characters. Recommended. I bought this audiobook. (  ) LisCarey | Feb 22, 2021 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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 The Citadel of Weeping Pearls 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. Thirty years ago, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai Viet Empire, the Citadel disappeared and was never seen again. 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. 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 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. The Tea Master and the Detective 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. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the appearance of environments easily modified and adapted to interlocutors or current mood. A transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow's Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow's Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment. When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow's Child with her. As they dig deep into the victim's past, The Shadow's Child realises that the investigation points to Long Chau's own murky past-and, ultimately, to the dark and unbearable void that lies between the stars. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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