The Red Scholar's wake
Bodard, Aliette de2022
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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.
Main title:
The Red Scholar's wake / Aliette de Bodard.
Author:
Bodard, Aliette de, author
Imprint:
London : Gollancz, 2022.
Collation:
336 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399601382 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
2300289