Seven of Infinities
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4.6 • 16 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Vân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student.
Sunless Woods is a mindship—and not just any mindship, but a notorious thief and a master of disguise. She’s come to the Belt to retire, but is drawn to Vân’s resolute integrity.
When a mysterious corpse is found in the quarters of Vân’s student, Vân and Sunless Woods find themselves following a trail of greed and murder that will lead them from teahouses and ascetic havens to the wreck of a mindship--and to the devastating secrets they’ve kept from each other.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With this lush, immersive sci-fi tale, de Bodard (The House of Sundering Flames) delves into a world as gritty as it is ethereal. V n, a tutor, hides the fact that her memory implant is a fake from her wealthy employers. The device is meant to contain the memory of the user's ancestors and so enhance the user's knowledge base, but V n cobbled her own together from memories of other people's ancestors, breaking a major taboo but allowing her access to scholarly society. When a visitor to her pupil winds up dead, V n works with The Wild Orchid in the Sunless Wood, a "mindship" (a sentient spaceship with a human avatar), to find out what happened. Their investigation leads them to a deceased architect and a group of thieves searching for the treasure he supposedly left behind. The closer V n and Sunless Wood come to catching the thieves, the closer they grow to one another. But can their budding relationship survive as dark secrets from both of their pasts come to light? De Bodard hints at a vast, fully realized world, but offers too few explanations for some of her imaginative creations. Despite the mild confusion this causes, readers will be swept away by the vivid prose, intrigue, and romance of this intricate tale. This fascinating, unusual story is sure to entrance.
