Aliette de Bodard

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Aliette de Bodard
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Aliette de Bodard in 2021
Born (1982-11-10) November 10, 1982 (age 42)
New York City, U.S. [1]
Occupation Computer engineer, author
NationalityAmerican, French
Genre Science fiction, Fantasy
Notable works"Immersion", "The Waiting Stars", The House of Shattered Wings , The Tea Master and the Detective
Notable awards
Website
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Aliette de Bodard (born November 10, 1982) is a French-American speculative fiction writer. [2]

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Writing

De Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, [3] and in 2009 was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has been published in Interzone , Hub Magazine, Black Static , Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , Asimov's , Realms of Fantasy , Apex Magazine , among others.

She won the 2012 Nebula Award [4] and Locus Award for Best Short Story for her short story "Immersion". [5] She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars". [6] Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. [7] Her Xuya Universe novella The Tea Master and the Detective won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and was nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella. [8] [9] [10]

Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for both the Nebula [11] and Hugo [12] Awards. Her short story "Shipbirth" was also nominated for the Nebula. [13] Her novella On a Red Station, Drifting , released by Immersion Press in December 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula [14] [15] and Hugo. [16] The science fiction work chronicles the conflict between two members of an extended Vietnamese family on a space station ruled by an AI, and is part of Bodard's Asian-dominated alternate-history series.

Bodard's short story collection Scattered Among Strange Worlds was released in July, 2012. The collection features two science fiction stories entitled "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" and "Exodus Tides". [17] Her short story "The Dust Queen" was published in the science fiction anthology Reach for Infinity in 2014. [18]

Her novel The House of Shattered Wings, set in a devastated Paris ruled by fallen angels, was published by Gollancz/Roc in August 2015. [19] [20] It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Her story "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" won the BSFA Award for Best Short Story of 2015, the first time a single author has ever won both fiction categories in the same year. [21] [22]

In 2024, she published Navigational Entanglements which has been included in the New Scientist's list of 'best new science fiction books of July 2024'. [23]

Themes

Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Vietnamese cultures are dominant. [24] In a 2018 interview with L'épaule d'Orion, she stated that "taste is largely underutilised sensorily in science-fiction... future worlds in SF have a tendency to be sanitised." [25] In a 2021 interview with Locus , she stated that she tried to write "parent-child relationships, and very often a mother-daughter relationship, because that's a thing you don't often see, aside from the controlling mother and the estranged mother. You don't even often see characters with dead mothers – the mothers tend to just fade out." [26]

Personal life

De Bodard is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. French is her first language but she writes in English. [1] [27] A graduate of École Polytechnique, [21] she works as a software engineer [3] (as of 2024 in railway signalling [28] ), and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group. She is bisexual. [29]

Awards

Year [30] TitleAwardCategoryResultRef
2008"Butterfly, Falling at Dawn" BSFA Award Short Fiction Nominated [31]
2009— John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Nominated
2010"The Shipmaker" BSFA Award Short Fiction Won
2011"The Jaguar House, in Shadow" Hugo Award Novelette Nominated
Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
2012D'obsidienne et de sang
(Servant of the Underworld)		 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger
('Foreign novel')		Nominated [32]
"Shipbirth" Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
2013"Heaven Under Earth" James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List [33]
"Immersion" Locus Award Short Story Won
Nebula Award Short Story Won
Hugo Award Short Story 2nd place
BSFA Award Short Fiction Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominated
On a Red Station, Drifting Hugo Award Novella 4th place
Locus Award Novella 5th place
Nebula Award Novella Nominated
"Scattered Along the River of Heaven" Locus Award Short Story 10th place
Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominated
2014"Separados por las aguas del Río Celeste"
("Scattered Along the River of Heaven")		 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero
('Best Foreign Story')		4th place
"The Waiting Stars" Hugo Award Novelette 3rd place
Nebula Award Novelette Won
Locus Award Novelette 4th place
2015"Memorials" Locus Award Novelette 5th place
"The Breath of War" Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
"The Dust Queen" Locus Award Short Story 4th place
El ciclo de Xuya
(The Xuya Cycle)		 Premio Ignotus Mejor antología
('Best Collected Work')		5th place
En una estación roja, a la deriva
( On a Red Station, Drifting )		Mejor cuento extranjero
('Best Foreign Story')		5th place
"Éparpillés le long des rivières du ciel"
("Scattered Along the River of Heaven")		 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère
('Foreign novella')		Longlisted [34]
2016The House of Shattered Wings BSFA Award Novel Won
Locus Award Fantasy Novel 4th place
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls Locus Award Novella 4th place
"Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" BSFA Award Short Fiction Won
Locus Award Short Story 4th place
Eugie Award Nominated
2017"A Salvaging of Ghosts" Locus Award Short Story 5th place
WSFA Small Press Award Nominated
"Pearl" Locus Award Novelette 2nd place
"The Citadel of Weeping Pearls" Canopus Award Previously Published Short Fiction Nominated [35]
2018"Tres tazas de aflicción a la luz de las estrellas"
("Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight")		 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero
('Best Foreign Story')		Won [36]
"Children of Thorns, Children of Water" Locus Award Novelette 2th place
Hugo Award Novelette 5th place
In the Vanishers' Palace Lambda Literary Awards Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Nominated
The House of Binding Thorns Locus Award Fantasy Novel 4th place
2019 The Tea Master and the Detective British Fantasy Award Novella Won
Nebula Award Novella Won
Hugo Award Novella 2nd place
Locus Award Novella 2nd place
World Fantasy Award Novella Nominated
On Motherhood and Erasure BSFA Award Non-Fiction Won
2020Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight Locus Award Collection 3rd place
British Fantasy Award Collection Nominated
形見 (Katami, "Memorials") Seiun Award Best Translated Short StoryNominated [37]
2021Seven of Infinities Locus Award Novella 7th place
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders Locus Award Novella 10th place
The Inaccessibility of Heaven Ignyte Award Short Fiction Won
Hugo Award Novelette Nominated
Locus Award Novelette 3rd place
"In the Lands of the Spill" Locus Award Short Story 9th place
2022 Fireheart Tiger BSFA Award Short Fiction Won [38]
Locus Award Novella 3rd place [39]
Hugo Award Novella 6th place [40]
Nebula Award Novella Nominated [41]
Ignyte Award Novella Nominated [42]
"Mulberry and Owl" Locus Award Novelette 3rd place [39]
2023The Red Scholar's Wake Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlisted [43]
BSFA Award Novel Nominated [43] [44]
Locus Award SF Novel 4th place [43] [45]
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances BSFA Award Short Fiction Won [44]
Locus Award Novella 5th place [45]
2024A Fire Born of Exile Locus Award Novel 7th place (tied) [46]
The Universe of Xuya Hugo Award Series 5th place [47]
"The Mausoleum's Children" Hugo Award Short Story 3rd place [47]
Locus Award Short Story 7th place [46]

Bibliography

References

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  2. ↑ locusmag (2021-03-15). "Aliette de Bodard: Where Is It Written?". Locus Online. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  3. 1 2 Ciriello, Dario (October 2009). "Ghosts and Demons: An Interview with Aliette de Bodard". The Internet Review of Science Fiction. Archived from the original on 2013-12-21. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
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  11. ↑ "SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees". Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
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  14. ↑ "2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced". Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
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  39. 1 2 "2022 Locus Awards Winners". Locus . June 25, 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
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  42. ↑ "2022 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus . September 19, 2022. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  43. 1 2 3 "Aliette de Bodard's The Red Scholar's Wake is a Clarke Award Finalist!". Zeno Literary Agency. June 9, 2023. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  44. 1 2 "2022 BSFA Award Winners". Locus . April 10, 2023. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  45. 1 2 "2023 Locus Award Winners". Locus . June 24, 2023. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
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