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SUMMARY:🪐 Speculative Futures Reading Group: 'The Tainted Cup' by Robert Jackson Bennett
DESCRIPTION:For our October 29th meeting we’ll discuss The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. (We originally planned to read Planetes Book 1 by Makoto Yukimura this month\, but we moved it to November 26th.)\n\n🎧 Get the audiobook on Libro.fm\n\nIn Daretana’s greatest mansion\, a high imperial officer lies dead–killed\, to all appearances\, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders\, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes\, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.\n\nAssigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra\, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times\, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.\n\nAt her side is her new assistant\, Dinios Kol\, magically altered in ways that make him the perfect aide to Ana’s brilliance. Din is at turns scandalized\, perplexed\, and utterly infuriated by his new superior–but as the case unfolds and he watches Ana’s mind leap from one startling deduction to the next\, he must admit that she is\, indeed\, the Empire’s greatest detective.\n\nAs the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the Empire itself\, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra–and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.\n\nBy an “endlessly inventive” ( Vulture) author with a “wicked sense of humor” (NPR)\, The Tainted Cup mixes the charms of detective fiction with brilliant world-building to deliver a fiendishly clever mystery that’s at once instantly recognizable and thrillingly new.\n\nRobert Jackson Bennett is the author of the Founders Trilogy and the Divine Cities Trilogy\, which were both Hugo Award finalists in the Best Series category. The first book in the Divine Cities Trilogy\, City of Stairs\, was also a finalist for the World Fantasy and Locus awards\, and the second\, City of Blades\, was a finalist for the World Fantasy\, Locus\, and British Fantasy awards. His previous novels\, which include American Elsewhere and The Company Man\, have received the Edgar Award\, the Shirley Jackson Award\, and the Philip K. Dick Citation of Excellence. He lives in Austin\, Texas\, with his family.
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