A.M. Dellamonica Child of a Hidden Sea

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It is a public service announcement of sort. I loved the book, and think you will love it, too. It has a strange new world, science, magic, law, bureaucracy, international intrigue, great characters, awesome heroine, pretty sea captain, sailing under sails, weird stuff, lot of women in positions of power and not, swordfight, glowintg moths and many more. And then read the sequel, A Daughter of No Nation, and then, while you waiting for more, the short stories:

http://www.tor.com/2012/02/15/among-the-silvering-herd/
http://www.tor.com/2014/03/05/the-ugly-woman-of-castello-di-putti-a-m-dellamonica/
http://www.tor.com/2016/01/06/the-glass-galago-a-m-dellamonica/