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The Red Scholar's Wake

Aliette de Bodard

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The Red Scholar's Wake was a finalist for the 2023 Locus Award for Best Novel, the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel, and the 2022 BSFA Award for Best Novel. When tech scavenger Xích Si is captured and imprisoned by the infamous pirates of the Red Banner, she expects to be tortured or killed. Instead, their leader, Rice Fish, makes Xích Si an utterly incredible proposition: an offer of marriage. Both have their reasons for this arrangement: Xích Si needs protection; Rice Fish, a sentient spaceship, needs a technical expert to investigate the death of her first wife, the Red Scholar. That's all there is to it. But as the interstellar war against piracy rages on and their own investigation reaches a dire conclusion, the two of them discover that their arrangement has evolved into something much less business-focused and more personal...and tender. And maybe the best thing that's ever happened to either of them—but only if they can find a way to survive together. A rich space opera and an intensely soft romance, from an exceptional SF author.

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Publisher
Gollancz Books
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9781625676108
Genre
Science FictionRomantasy
Topics
Space piracySentient spaceshipsMarriage of convenienceLGBTQ+ romanceMurder investigation

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