![]() ![]() Long Chau wants to retrieve a corpse for her scientific studies: a simple enough, well-paid assignment.īut when the corpse they find turns out to have been murdered, the simple assignment becomes a vast and tangled investigation, inexorably leading back to the past-and, once again, to that unbearable void where The Shadow's Child almost lost both sanity and life. Until the abrasive and arrogant scholar Long Chau comes to see her. Discharged and struggling to make a living, she has no plans to go back into space. Now the war is over, and The Shadow's Child, surviving against all odds, has run away. Until an ambush killed her crew and left her wounded and broken. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once, she leapt effortlessly between stars and planets, carrying troops and crew for a war that tore the Empire apart. Once, the mindship known as The Shadow's Child was a military transport. “A window onto a beautifully developed world that widens the meaning of space opera.” - New York Times Winner of the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novellaįinalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novella ![]()
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