In Blue Lily's Wake

Aliette de Bodard Meeting Infinity 2015 2015

ShortStory 7,200 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

Eleven years ago, the Blue-Lily plague devastated the Empire. Now Yen Oanh attends to unfinished business with a dead mind-ship and a living survivor.

Space Opera Trauma Slow Burn

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Deep Space Far Future Elegiac Lyrical Lyrical Prose Sacrifice Survival Social SF Literary SF Contemplative Close Third Person Grief And Loss Bittersweet Science Fiction

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deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemic

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