Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight
Aliette de Bodard
Clarkesworld
100
2015
ShortStory
6,934 words
Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
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A key scientist in the Dai Viet interstellar empire has died, and three people who were close to her mourn her passing in different ways.
Diaspora SFMotherhoodIntrospective
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Space OperaAI FictionDeep SpaceFound FamilyFar FutureConsciousnessElegiacLyricalLyrical ProseIntimateMelancholicSocial SFLiterary SFContemplativeClose Third PersonGrief And LossIdentityBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction
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deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
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