The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de BodardMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was something truly special; if you like a good sci-fi that has the potential to become quite the spectacular space opera, then this is the best choice for you.
Rice Fish is a live ship, a human connected into a spaceship, and she is the widow of the Red Scholar, the head of the Red band of Pirates. She pulls in Xi, a scavenger and bot builder, to help her find out who had killed her wife. And as such, many terrible and wonderful things start to happen.
The world is based on an oriental culture, with women and men marrying as they like. It has some wonderful lgbtq themes, written as the everyday. It is not the focus of the book, made the norm, which is wonderful to read. The world/space that the book is based in is steeped in some great background, making it believable in its harshness. After all, all life is hard, and why would it be any different in the future in space.
This is a rich, wonderful sci-fi that has the potential to become an epic space opera, one I can not wait to read.
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