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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
A Science Fiction Novel by Aliette De Bodard
Book 2 of the Xuya Universe Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Space Opera,
- Time Travel,
- Imperial Court
This book is for you if you're into...
- Space operas with vanished wonders and secret weapons
- Imperial court intrigue shaped by old wounds and high-tech mysteries
- Obsessive quests to rewrite history with forbidden technology
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.
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