Quando Shek Yeung vê um marinheiro português matar o seu marido, um pirata temido e poderoso, ela sabe que tem de agir rapidamente ou morrerá. Sem tempo para o luto, propõe uma aliança ao novo chefe: em troca de um filho herdeiro, é-lhe poupada a vida e permitido manter o poder sobre metade da frota.Mas as marés trazem novas e terríveis ameaças. O imperador chinês encarregou um nobre brutal de eliminar a pirataria dos mares do sul da China; e os europeus, cansados de perderem navios...

A Good Morning America Buzz PickThe dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.As Recommended ByThe TODAY Show * Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * Real Simple * Time * Popsugar * HuffPost * Los Angeles Times * Ms. Magazine * Book Riot * Elle.com * The Rumpus * Tor.com * Polygon * Debutiful * Electri...

Elle sera la femme pirate la plus puissante de l’histoire... Mais à quel prix ?Chine méridionale, début du XIXe siècle. Après un brutal affrontement entre son équipage de pirates et un navire portugais, Shek Yeung se retrouve veuve – et en position de prendre le contrôle de sa flotte. Au lieu de se lamenter, Shek Yeung lance un nouveau plan : elle épouse immédiatement le second de son mari afin de conserver son pouvoir sur l’équipage, tuer dans l’œuf tout potentiel conflit de succe...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2025 issue (#225) contains:Fiction* "Emily of Emerald Starship" by Ng Yi-Sheng* "If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow" by Claire Jia-Wen* "In the Shells of Broken Things" by A. T. Greenblatt* "The Eighth Pyramid" by Louis Inglis Hall* "Faces of the Antipode" by Matthew Marcus

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our January 2020 issue (#160) contains:Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Monster"), Filip Hajdar Drnovsek Zorko ("The AI That Looked at the Sun"), Rita Chang-Eppig ("The Last to Die"), I-Hyeong Yun ("The Perfect Sail"), and Chen Qiufan ("The Ancestral Temple in a Box").Non-fiction by Douglas F. Dluzen,...