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Of wars, and memories, and starlight / Aliette de Bodard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 381 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 159606952X
  • 9781596069527
Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- The shipmaker -- The jaguar house, in shadow -- Scattered along the River of Heaven -- Immersion -- The waiting stars -- Memorials -- The breath of war -- The days of the war, as red as blood, as dark as bile -- The dust queen -- Three cups of grief, by starlight -- A salvaging of ghosts -- Pearl -- Children of thorns, children of water -- Of birthdays, and fungus, and kindness.
Summary: "A major first collection from a writer fast becoming one of the stars of the genre... Aliette de Bodard, multiple award winner and author of The Tea Master and the Detective, now brings readers fourteen dazzling tales that showcase the richly textured worldbuilding and beloved characters that have brought her so much acclaim.Come discover the breadth and endless invention of her universes, ranging from a dark Gothic Paris devastated by a magical war; to the multiple award-winning Xuya, a far-future space opera inspired by Vietnamese culture where scholars administrate planets and sentient spaceships are part of families."--Publisher description.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Bodard, Aliette Available 33111009537909
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A major first collection from a writer fast becoming one of the stars of the genre]e] Aliette de Bodard, multiple award winner and author of The Tea Master and the Detective, now brings readers fourteen dazzling tales that showcase the richly textured worldbuilding and beloved characters that have brought her so much acclaim.

Come discover the breadth and endless invention of her universes, ranging from a dark Gothic Paris devastated by a magical war; to the multiple award-winning Xuya, a far-future space opera inspired by Vietnamese culture where scholars administrate planets and sentient spaceships are part of families.

In the Nebula award and Locus award winning "Immersion", a young girl working in a restaurant on a colonized space station crosses paths with an older woman who has cast off her own identity. In the novelette "Children of Thorns, Children of Water", a shapeshifting dragon infiltrating a ruined mansion finds more than he's bargained for when his partner is snatched by eerie, child-like creatures. And in the award-winning "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight", three very different people"e"a scholar, an engineer, and a spaceship"e"all must deal with the loss of a woman who was the cornerstone of their world.

This collection includes a never-before seen 20,000-word novella, "Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness", set in Bodard's alternative dark Paris.

"A major first collection from a writer fast becoming one of the stars of the genre... Aliette de Bodard, multiple award winner and author of The Tea Master and the Detective, now brings readers fourteen dazzling tales that showcase the richly textured worldbuilding and beloved characters that have brought her so much acclaim.Come discover the breadth and endless invention of her universes, ranging from a dark Gothic Paris devastated by a magical war; to the multiple award-winning Xuya, a far-future space opera inspired by Vietnamese culture where scholars administrate planets and sentient spaceships are part of families."--Publisher description.

Introduction -- The shipmaker -- The jaguar house, in shadow -- Scattered along the River of Heaven -- Immersion -- The waiting stars -- Memorials -- The breath of war -- The days of the war, as red as blood, as dark as bile -- The dust queen -- Three cups of grief, by starlight -- A salvaging of ghosts -- Pearl -- Children of thorns, children of water -- Of birthdays, and fungus, and kindness.

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