Work

The Tea Master and the Detective

Aliette de Bodard · 2018novella

Genre
- science fiction
- mystery & detective
Theme
- artificial intelligence
- murder investigation
Place
- other star systems
- spaceship
Time
- far future
Tone
- mysterious
Audience
- adult

Also present

Genrespace opera
Tonereflective tense

The Tea Master and the Detective is a 2018 science fiction novella by Aliette de Bodard. It is a standalone tale set in the author's Xuya Universe. The novella won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella, 2019 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and was a finalist for other awards including the Hugo and Locus Awards.

Source · Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Placement

Universe of Xuya
contained in Tea and Murdercollection