On a Red Station, Drifting
About this ebook
For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives. But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper’s brightest minds have been called away to defend the Emperor; and a flood of disorientated refugees strain the station's resources.
As deprivations cause the station’s ordinary life to unravel, uncovering old grudges and tearing apart the decimated family, Station Mistress Quyen and the Honoured Ancestress struggle to keep their relatives united and safe.
What Quven does not know is that the Honoured Ancestress herself is faltering, her mind eaten away by a disease that seems to have no cure; and that the future of the station itself might hang in the balance...
Praise for On a Red Station, Drifting and Aliette de Bodard:
“Riven with tension... emotional and social... I for one rejoice in its difference.” —Liz Bourke, Reactor.com
“SF is lucky to have Aliette de Bodard.” —Alastair Reynolds, The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
About the author
Aliette de Bodard has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a European Science Fiction Society Award, a British Fantasy Award and six BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Awards. She is the author of Navigational Entanglements (forthcoming summer 2024), as well as A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo set in space. She also wrote The Red Scholar’s Wake (2022 BSFA Award finalist, 2022 Locus Award finalist, 2022 Clarke Award finalist), a lesbian space pirates romance set in Vietnamese-inspired galactic empires. She is well-known for the multi-award-winning, Hugo-award nominated series The Universe of Xuya, Vietnamese-inspired space opera with sentient spaceships. Finally, she is the author of the Dragons and Blades series, comedies of manners, murders and family shenanigans set in a Gothic Vietnamese court, which comprise Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders and Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (2022 BSFA Award Winner). She lives in Paris, France.
