#65 Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard

 

This is a novella set in The Universe of Xuya series of stories.  Vân is a tutor with a secret that can ruin her if it comes to light. She is not from the typical scholar background and she has an unusual memory implant that if society found out what she did to it, she would be ruined.  While talking with the ship mind Sunless Woods about the poetry club they belong to an visitor comes to visit  Vân’s student and then promptly dies as her student left the room to get tea.  Sunless Woods insists on helping Vân with this mystery and in the process Vân and Sunless Woods’ shadowy backgrounds come to light. 

Another great story in this setting and once again it is written where the reader doesn’t need to be familiar with setting to find out what is going on but you do get a deeper appreciation of it if you have read some of the previous stories. 

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley