So, you may have heard me referring to “aristocratic Latina space archaeologist with a sword” or words to that effect. A lot of you (a lot of you, I think I got more likes on that comment than in my entire previous year on Twitter, wow, thank all of you!) seem to like the idea. Now that I’m wrapping up the submission for Silk & Steel, I’d like to introduce you to the woman I’ve been spending the last year and a half of my life with, and some of her Six Worlds.
Amigos, may I present Doña Doctora Ana Lucía María Keiko Maximiliano Ghaziyah Hector Luz Serrano y Veracruz.
Professor of Archaeology at the Great Madrassa of Indirabad-Angang on Prithvi, Mistress of the Blade of the Golden Moon, the woman who recovered the Lost Probe of Ganesha and the Jade Monkey. Calls herself “the Six Worlds’ most public Latina.” Always dubbed “confirmed bachelorette” in the network tabloid-feeds, right before they speculate on her next choice of partner(s).
In the Six Worlds of Earth, dear departed Earth is nigh-legend, and relics thereof priceless. Archaeology is again a business of firefights in dusty digsites for the Glory of the people or the dome or the museum who backed the diggers and sing their praises.
And Doña Ana Lucía is one of the best. With her swordcane and her handcannon, she retrieves relics from distant snowy peaks of the far side of Ganesha or from within the halls of Uffizi Station itself, because:
“It does not belong in a museum!”
In “Doña Ana Lucía Serrano y la caja de Venuswood,” Doña Ana Lucía hangs under a cloud, forced to hunt down a bit of estate auction flotsam by some sinister power who hold her darkest secrets in their hands! She tracks it to New Trivandrum, on Sati, where she winds up rescuing the dead man’s daughter, the silver-haired, sardonic Annika Talavalakar. But as they alight the Triozini Rajput grav-train back to the nearest spaceport, two sets of sinister forces alight with them, one to open the box and exploit its secrets, the other willing to do anything to close the box and silence Ani Talavalakar…forever.
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