Runner-up, Best Novella, 2019

The Tea Master and the Detective

Aliette de Bodard (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 96 pages

A mindship who brews tea for travellers is hired by an abrasive detective to help find a corpse in the deep spaces, in a take on Sherlock Holmes.

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