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NAVIGATIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS, by Aliette de Bodard, is a space-opera story. Four navigator clans (the Ox, Rat, Snake, and Dog clans) are responsible for steering spacecraft into and out of hyperspace, here called the Hollows. Navigators handle the transition into the Hollows and keep craft safe from the creatures inhabiting it, such as the mind-destroying tanglers. Now a tangler has escaped into normal space, which would be a huge disaster, and taking care of the problem has been entrusted to a misfit crew: the neurodiverse Việt Nhi, the blunt assassin Hạc Cúc, the brittle Lanh who's been suspiciously close to tanglers and survived, and the heedless scientist Bao Duy. Of course, there will be complications such as a murder, and a budding romance between Nhi and Hạc Cúc.

I run hot and cold on de Bodard's work but enjoyed this one. Both the romance element and the mystery felt a little by-the-numbers, but I liked our crew of misfits, each with a different quirk or problem, and the unwrapping of the secret of the tangler's escape.

(5/6)

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In my new interview with author Aliette de Bodard, she explains why the complicated method of space travel in her character focused science fiction space opera novella "Navigational Entanglements" is so monstrous.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-navigational-entanglements-aliette-de-bodard/
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I just finished reading
Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard and really enjoyed it! ^_^

Her books are always so well-written, thoughtful, clever, insightful, and warm.

"Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known as Tanglers. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time in living memory, each clan must send a representative to help capture it—but the mission may be doomed and the hearts of two clan juniors may be in danger too.

Việt Nhi is not good with people. Or politics. Which is a problem when the Rooster clan sends her on the mission against her will, forcing her to work with an ill-matched group of squabbling teammates from rival clans, including one who she can’t avoid, and maybe doesn’t want to.

Hạc Cúc of the Snake clan has always been better at poisoning and stabbing than at making friends, but she’s drawn to Nhi’s perceptiveness and obliviousness to social conventions—including the ones that really should make Nhi think twice about spending time with her.

But when their imperial envoy and nominal leader is poisoned, this crew of expendable apprentices will have to learn to work together—fast—before the invisible Tangler can wreak havoc on a civilian city and destroy the fragile reputation of the clans. Along the way, Nhi and Hạc Cúc will have to learn the hardest lesson of all: to see past their own misconceptions and learn to trust their growing feelings for each other."

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The silver lining of covid: I don't have to work the next few days, and I ~just~ finally got my own copy of The Red Scholar's Wake!

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#books #AmReading #SciFi #SapphicBooks #SFF

#DystopiaIsNow @bookstodon

My framed @lea_muna watercolour!
https://www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/novels/dragons-and-blades/
The two main characters of Dragons and Blades, Asmodeus and Thuan (aka stabby Fallen Angel and his cinnamon roll dragon husband) having a well deserved tea and cuddles.
(Asmodeus even put away his knives to enjoy the tea hahahaha)
You can get the first book as part of a bundle here: https://storybundle.com/scifi
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Happy Saturday!

Are there any stories you can’t wait to get lost in? Maybe you want to expand your book list but don’t know where to start?

Today we’re sharing the #Sapphic or #LGBTQIA books up next on your reading list!

Share 5 of yours by tagging #SapphicSaturday 😊

Mine are:
1. Harrow the Ninth by #TamsynMuir
2. The Red Scholar’s Wake by #AlietteDeBodard
3. Into the Drowning Deep by #MiraGrant
4. Honey Girl by #MorganRogers
5. Crier’s War by #NinaVarela

#SapphicFiction #LesFic

New haircut day! #selfie #authorsofinstagram #sciencefiction #sciencefictionauthor #aliettedebodard

So if you're a patron on my patreon (patreon.com/aliettedebodard), next month I'll have a post on ways of reheating leftovers (for patrons at Dragon tier and above), and a comparison of different tea travelling systems (for patrons at Dragon & Tiger tier) #patron #patreon #aliettedebodard

The Red Scholar’s Wake

Disclosure: I received a copy of this book free of charge for review purposes only. Receipt of a book does not guarantee a review or endorsement.  “The Red Scholar is Dead.” The words, at first barely a whisper, passed through…

#4-stars #aliette-de-bodard #review #the-red-scholars-wake

https://www.curiositykilledthebookworm.net/2022/11/the-red-scholars-wake/

@bigbeardedbookseller Either for those who struggle with names / memory or because there's a character limit if you go on too long 😉

For today's version of the list I'll go with:
#DianaWynnJones
#ElizabethMoon
#GuyGavrielKay
#DylanThomas
#TamoraPierce
#JoanAiken
#AlietteDeBodard

Announcing the Red Scholar's Wake bookstagram tour!
Look at all this goodness!
Also still time to preorder your copy https://geni.us/RedScholarHB (UK, EU, Asia, etc.)
https://books2read.com/u/3GWVxL (US & CAN)
#sff #scienceFiction #spaceOpera #romance
#LesbianSpacePirates #lesbian #sapphic #sapphicSpacePirates #aliettedebodard #gollancz #vietnam #vietnamese #diverseSFF #diverseBooks #ownVoices #books

OMG I'm on TV
(Catalan TV)
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