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This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Aliette de Bodard, author of The Red Scholar\u2019s Wake.
\nAbout The Red Scholar\u2019s Wake: X\xedch Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. X\xedch Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates\u2019 enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between X\xedch Si and herself.
\nRice Fish: sentient ship, leader of the infamous Red Banner pirate fleet, wife of the Red Scholar. Or at least, she was the latter before her wife died under suspicious circumstances. Now isolated and alone, Rice Fish wants X\xedch Si\u2019s help to find out who struck against them and why. Marrying X\xedch Si means Rice Fish can offer X\xedch Si protection, in exchange for X\xedch Si\u2019s technical fluency: a business arrangement with nothing more to it.
\nBut as the investigation goes on, Rice Fish and X\xedch Si find themselves falling for each other. As the interstellar war against piracy intensifies and the five fleets start fighting each other, they will have to make a stand-and to decide what kind of future they have together…
\nAbout Aliette de Bodard: Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and five British Science Fiction Association Awards.
\nShe is the author of the lesbian space pirates romance The Red Scholar\u2019s Wake (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022), and of Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She also wrote Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com, 2021 BSFA Award winner), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own.
\nHer space opera books include The Tea Master and the Detective (2018 Nebula Award winner, 2018 British Fantasy Award winner, 2019 Hugo Award finalist).
\nThis week\u2019s picks:
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\n* Aliette: Mr. Bad (Chinese language drama)
\n* Tracy: The World We Make (Audio) by N. K. Jemisin
\n* Patrick: Will Trent (ABC)
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\nLinks:
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\n* Aliette de Bodard on Mastodon
\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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\n\xa9 2023 Patrick Hester