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On a Red Station, Drifting

Aliette de Bodard

Start date: April 11, 2014

Finish date: March 10, 2014

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Nov 25, 2020 Netanella rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Linh arrived on Prosper Station blown by the winds of war, amidst a ship full of refugees who huddled together, speaking tearfully of the invading armies: the war between the rebel lords and the Empire had escalated, and their war-kites had laid waste to entire planets.

Nominated for multiple industry awards, "On a Red Station, Drifting" is worthy indeed of the accolades it's received. Brilliant Vietnamese-tinged space opera filled with an empire at war with rebellious generals, sentie ...more

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Aug 05, 2013 Fungus Gnat rated it really liked it

A magistrate on the lam due to critical statements directed toward her emperor is taken in by distant cousins on a space station run by a bureaucrat resentful of the new arrival. This premise offers only a pale glimpse of the events that follow, which form a tale driven by pride, spite, treachery, and disloyalty, among other emotions, most of them negative. These passions are seldom stirred to a boil in the SF pot, and if their location in a galactic future infused with Asian culture and estheti ...more

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Apr 14, 2014 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This was really interesting! From the book it's clear that we are dealing with an Asian society in the future, set in space (I later found out that this author has this alternate world, called the Xuya universe based on the idea that the Chinese kept exploring in the early 15th center, instead of abruptly ceasing as they actually did, and eventually colonized North America. The society in this particular society is actually Viet). In keeping with the respect shown to ancestors in those societies ...more

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