The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

“

A beautifully written, bittersweet mystery in a wonderfully imaginative space setting” from the award-winning creator of the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy (

Fantasy Literature

).

  The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was an incredible surprise; an ideal meld between cutting-edge know-how and esoteric sciences—its inhabitants succesful of teleporting themselves anyplace, its weapons small and undetectable and lethal.   Thirty years in the past, threatened by an invading fleet from the Dai Viet Empire, the Citadel disappeared and was by no means seen once more.   But now the empire itself is beneath siege, on the verge of a struggle in opposition to an enemy that turns their very own mindships in opposition to them; and the Empress, who as soon as gave the order to raze the Citadel, is in determined want of its weapons. Meanwhile, on a small remoted house station, an engineer obsessive about the previous works on a machine that may ship her thirty years again, to the peak of the Citadel’s energy.   But the Citadel’s disappearance nonetheless extends chains of grief and remorse all the way in which into the fraught environment of the Imperial Court; and this informal summoning of the previous might need world-shattering penalties . . .   A brand new e book set within the award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe.  

Praise for Aliette de Bodard

“Startlingly original.” —

The Guardian

  “A writer who deserves attention.” —

SF Signal