The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
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Sprache:Englisch
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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2019
Verlag
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.Seitenzahl
166 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1107 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781625672544
"
A beautifully written, bittersweet mystery in a wonderfully imaginative space setting" from the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy (
Fantasy Literature).
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...
A new book set in the award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe.
Praise for Aliette de Bodard
"Startlingly original." -
The Guardian
"A writer who deserves attention." -
SF Signal
A beautifully written, bittersweet mystery in a wonderfully imaginative space setting" from the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy (
Fantasy Literature).
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...
A new book set in the award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe.
Praise for Aliette de Bodard
"Startlingly original." -
The Guardian
"A writer who deserves attention." -
SF Signal
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