The Red Scholar's Wake: Shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award

Name: The Red Scholar's Wake: Shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Aliette de Bodard

Nov 2022 · Hachette UK

3 reviews

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'A great sapphic sci-fi'
SAMANTHA SHANNON

Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between Xích Si and herself.

Rice Fish: sentient ship, leader of the infamous Red Banner pirate fleet, wife of the Red Scholar. Or at least, she was the latter before her wife died under suspicious circumstances. Now isolated and alone, Rice Fish wants Xích Si's help to find out who struck against them and why. Marrying Xích Si means Rice Fish can offer Xích Si protection, in exchange for Xích Si's technical fluency: a business arrangement with nothing more to it.

But as the investigation goes on, Rice Fish and Xích Si find themselves falling for each other. As the interstellar war against piracy intensifies and the five fleets start fighting each other, they will have to make a stand-and to decide what kind of future they have together...

An exciting space opera and a beautiful romance from an exceptional SF author, shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

'Confident, sexy, and touching'
MAX GLADSTONE

'An exhilarating dive into space piracy'
EVERINA MAXWELL

'A fizzingly inventive space opera'
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

'The most glittery and delicious candy-shell'
FREYA MARSKE

'A "read-in-one-sitting" novel'
KATE ELLIOTT

'An epic tale of piracy and romance'
GARETH L. POWELL

'It took my breath away!'
STEPHANIE BURGIS

'LESBIAN SPACE PIRATES. Enough said'
KATEE ROBERT

'A great sapphic sci-fi' SAMANTHA SHANNON Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' e...

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3 reviews

Mathieu Leocmach

December 4, 2022

Magnificent world building interlaced with personal issues, complex characters and beautiful prose.

About the author

Aliette de Bodard is one of the Writers of the Future, has won two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award and a BSFA Award. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, making her one of our most-lauded contemporary fiction writers. A writer by night, by day she is a qualified engineer, specialising in Applied Mathematics. She lives in Paris, in a flat with more computers than she really needs. You can learn more at www.aliettedebodard.com or by following @aliettedb on twitter.

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