![]() The world-building is really cool In the Vanishers’ Palace is set on a world that was modified beyond the inhabitants’ understanding by the Vanishers, who abandoned it when they grew bored – and people are actively trying to fix it. ![]() Together they live in the dangerous Escher-style nightmare that is the Vanishers’ palace, trying to raise Vu Côn’s teenage children and change the nightmare that the Vanishers left this world in. ![]() Yên is a rural scholar, who offers herself up to a dragon in her mother’s place to repay her village’s debts Vu Côn is the dragon in question, trying to fix the world that the Vanisher’s destroyed and then abandoned. In The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard is a post-apocalyptic post-colonisation fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast. ![]()
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