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Aliette’s latest:
Author: Aliette de Bodard
Publication date: Oct 12th, 2023
Publisher: Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: ebook ASIN B088WF2TGJ (ebook, £11.49), print ISBN 1473223431 (hardcover, £18.99)
Available In: ebook | hardback | audiobook
Genre: Romantic Science Fiction, Lesbian Science Fiction, Space Opera
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‘So romantic I may simply perish’ Tasha Suri, award-winning author of THE JASMINE THRONE
The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats under tight military rule . . . where the powerful have become all too comfortable in their positions, and their corruption. But change is coming, with the arrival of Quynh: the mysterious and enigmatic Alchemist of Streams and Hills.
To Minh, daughter of the ruling prefect of the Belt, Quynh represents a chance for escape. To Hoà, a destitute engineer, Quynh has a mysterious link to her own past . . . and holds a deeper, more sensual appeal. But Quynh has her own secret history, and a plan for the ruling class of the Belt. A plan that will tear open old wounds, shake the heavens, and may well consume her.
A beautiful exploration of the power of love, of revenge, and of the wounds of the past, this fast-paced, heart-warming space opera is set against a backdrop of corruption, power and political scheming in the far reaches of the award-winning Xuya universe.
Cover: Alyssa Winans
Praise for Aliette de Bodard:
‘It took my breath away!’
Stephanie Burgis
‘A fizzyingly inventive space opera’
Alastair Reynolds
‘Really fresh’
Katee Robert
‘A treasure’
Gareth L Powell
‘So romantic I may simply perish’
Tasha Suri
Bios for re-use
50-word bio:
Aliette de Bodard writes speculative fiction: she has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award and six British Science Fiction Association Awards. She is the author of A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023), and of Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022 BSFA Award winner), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She lives in Paris.
90-word bio:
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and six British Science Fiction Association Awards.
She is the author of A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023), and of Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022 BSFA Award winner), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court.
She also wrote Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com, 2021 BSFA Award winner), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own. She lives in Paris.
150-word bio:
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and six British Science Fiction Association Awards.
She is the author of A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023), and of Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022 BSFA Award winner), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She also wrote Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com, 2021 BSFA Award winner), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own.
Her space opera books include The Tea Master and the Detective (2018 Nebula Award winner, 2018 British Fantasy Award winner, 2019 Hugo Award finalist).
300-word bio:
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Architect. She studied Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, but moonlights as a writer of speculative fiction. Aliette has won three Nebula Awards,an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and five British Science Fiction Association Awards.
She is the author of A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023), and of Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022 BSFA Award winner), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She also wrote Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com, 2021 BSFA Award winner), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own.
She is the author of the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy, set in a turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war–which comprises The House of Shattered Wings (Roc/Gollancz, 2015 British Science Fiction Association Award, Locus Award finalist), and The House of Binding Thorns (Ace/Gollancz, 2017 European Science Fiction Society Achievement Award, Locus award finalist), and The House of Sundering Flames.
Her short story collection Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight is out from Subterranean Press.
Her space opera books also include The Tea Master and the Detective (2018 Nebula Award winner, 2018 British Fantasy Award winner, 2019 Hugo Award finalist), a murder mystery set on a space station in a Vietnamese Galactic empire, inspired by the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
She lives in Paris with her family, in a flat with more computers than warm bodies, and a set of Lovecraftian tentacled plants intent on taking over the place. In what little is left of her spare time, she wrangles kids and cooks Franco-Vietnamese food. Hobbies include board games, tai chi/chi gong, and devouring books.
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“SF is lucky to have Aliette de Bodard.”
Alastair Reynolds
“…a writer who, in a career of barely more than a decade, has shown remarkable versatility, shifting from the multiple award-winning, far-future space opera settings of her Xuya series to the Dominion of the Fallen fantasy novels, which seem to occupy a territory no one had suspected was even there, somewhere between John Milton and Victor Hugo.”
Gary K Wolfe, Locus
“Aliette de Bodard is truly one of science fiction’s greatest treasures. Her writing is beautiful, with a gorgeous, true sense of place and an imaginative conceit unlike any other I’ve seen in SF.”
Jeremy Brett, Ancillary Review of Books
“Aliette de Bodard is constantly not only revisiting but reinventing her own Xuya universe and one of her many, many qualities as a writer is this beautiful mix of modern futures with on-going traditions.”
Ana Grilo, Kirkus
“A French-Vietnamese Paris-based science fiction author who lives in Paris but writes in English and is fast becoming one of the news stars of the genre, garnering awards and nominations in her wake.”
Maxim Jakubowksi, Crime Time
Awards
- 2022 BSFA Award, “Best Short Fiction”, for Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- 2021 BSFA Award, “Best Short Fiction”, for Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom
- 2020 Ignyte Award, “Best Novelette”, for “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”, Uncanny Magazine
- 2018 British Fantasy Award, “Best Novella”, for The Tea Master and the Detective, Subterranean Press/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- 2018 Nebula Award, “Best Novella”, for The Tea Master and the Detective, Subterranean Press/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- 2018 British Science Fiction Association Award, “Best Non-Fiction”, for the article “On Motherhood and Erasure”
- 2017 European Science Fiction Society Achievement Award, “Best Novel”, for The House of Binding Thorns (Gollancz/Ace)
- 2015 British Science Fiction Association Award, “Best Novel”, for The House of Shattered Wings (Gollancz/Roc)
- 2015 British Science Fiction Association Award, “Best Short Fiction”, for “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight” (Clarkesworld Magazine)
- 2013 Nebula Award, “Best Novelette”, for “The Waiting Stars” in The Other Half of the Sky, ed. Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt
- 2012 Nebula Award and 2012 Locus Award, “Best Short Story”, for “Immersion”, in Clarkesworld Magazine June 2012
- 2010 British Science Fiction Association Award, “Best Short Fiction”, for “The Shipmaker” in Interzone
- Finalist for British Science Fiction Association Award, 2022, “Best Novel”, for The Red Scholar’s Wake
- Finalist for British Science Fiction Association Award, “Best Short Fiction”, for Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances
- Finalist for Nebula Award 2021, “Best Novella”, for Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom
- Finalist for Hugo Award 2021, “Best Novella”, for Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom
- Finalist for Ignyte Award 2021, “Best Novella”, for Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom
- Finalist for Stabby Award 2021, “Best Novella”, for Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom
- Finalist for Locus Award 2020, “Best Novella”, for Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders and Seven of Infinities
- Finalist for Locus Award 2020, “Best Novelette” for “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”
- Finalist for Ignyte Award 2020, “Best Novelette” for “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”
- Finalist for Hugo Award 2020, “Best Novelette”, for “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”
- Finalist for Locus Award 2020, “Best Short Story” for “In the Lands of the Spill”
- Finalist for Locus Award 2019, “Best Collection”, for Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
- Finalist for World Fantasy Awards 2019, “Best Novella”, for The Tea Master and the Detective
- Double finalist for Hugo Award 2019, “Best Series” for The Universe of Xuya and “Best Novella” for The Tea Master and the Detective
- Finalist for Locus Award 2018, “Best Novella”, for The Tea Master and the Detective
- Finalist for Lammy Award 2018, “LGBTQ SF/F/Horror”, for In the Vanishers’ Palace
- Finalist for Locus Award 2017, “Best Novel”, for The House of Binding Thorns, published by Ace (US)/Gollancz (UK, Rest of the World)
- Finalist for Locus Award 2015, “Best Novel”, for The House of Shattered Wings, published by Roc (US)/Gollancz(UK, Rest of the World)
- Finalist for Locus Award 2015, “Best Novella”, for The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, published in Asimov’s, October/November 2015
- Finalist for Locus Award 2015, “Best Short Story”, for “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”, published in Clarkesworld, January 2015
- Finalist for Nebula Award 2014, “Best Short Story”, for “The Breath of War”, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies March 2014
- Finalist for Locus Award 2014, “Best Novelette”, for “Memorials”, in Asimov’s January 2014
- Finalist for Locus Award 2014, “Best Short Story”, for “The Dust Queen”, in Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan
- Finalist for “Best Novelette”, Hugo Award, 2013; and Locus Award, 2013, for “The Waiting Stars” in The Other Half of the Sky, ed. Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt
- Honor List for Tiptree Award, 2014, “Heaven under Earth”, in Electric Velocipede 24
- Finalist for “Best Novella”, Hugo Award, 2012; Nebula Award, 2012; and Locus Award, 2012, for On A Red Station, Drifting
- Finalist for “Best Short Story”, Hugo Award, 2012; Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award; and Locus Award, “Best Short Story”, for “Immersion”, in Clarkesworld Magazine June 2012
- Finalist for Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, 2012, “Best Short Story”, “Scattered Along the River of Heaven”, in Clarkesworld Magazine January 2012