6/29/2023 0 Comments The raven tower ann leckie![]() In this Hugo Award-winning book, Vo turns her attention - and ours - to the kinds of characters and stories that history often brushes aside. There, they meet Rabbit, an elderly peasant woman who was once the Empress’ handmaiden and is now an invaluable source of information about Empress In-yo’s early reign. They collect and record history and can’t resist the opportunity to learn more about the recently deceased Empress In-yo while they are at her former home. The novella follows Chih, a non-binary cleric of the Singing Hills Monastery, who visits an abandoned palace called Thriving Fortune with their talking bird, Almost Brilliant. ![]() ![]() Nghi Vo’s ferociously feminist debut novella, 2020’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune, is just over a hundred pages long, but it’s truly impressive what she manages to do in that space in terms of world-building and characterization. ![]() Read ‘The Empress of Salt and Fortune’ by Nghi Vo ![]()
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