The Tea Master and the Detective

Paperback, 122 pages

English language

Published Jan. 14, 2019 by JABberwocky Literary Agency.

ISBN:
978-1-62567-406-7
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OCLC Number:
1129583375
ASIN:
1625674066

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4 stars (1 review)

Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the appareance of environments easily modified and adapted to interlocutors or current mood.

A transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow's Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow's Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment. When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow's …

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Sentient spaceships, tea, and a murder mystery

4 stars

I've been fascinated with sentient space ships for a long time, so I had to read this book. It's an interesting premise and world and I would love to know more about the deep spaces. I'm not sure if this always involves travelling through space from one place to another, or if this is only dimensional. The tea aspect is interesting to me as well. I want to know more about The Shadow's Child, and Long Chau and everything. As far as I understand though, all stories in this universe are standalone. So I don't think there'll ever be more on those two. But maybe more that elaborate on the deep spaces?

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