Status Updates From The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

But sometimes, the hollows left by the absence were worse than those left by death.

Aliette de Bodard is my queen, her writing is just sublime...

I'm surprising myself with my negative response to the time travel aspect of this story. SF is all but fantasy at times, I know, but it's just too hard to wrap my head around the idea that a time travel device could account for both time, and the movement of galaxies as well--not throwing our traveler into deep space or somewhere else immediately lethal.

I've been meaning to reread this novella for a while, since I barely remember it and want to reacquaint myself with this setting before moving on to other stories set in the Xuya Universe. I also desperately need a palate cleanser after another couple of middlin' books.