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Aliette de Bodard | |
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 Aliette de Bodard in 2021 | |
| Born | November 10, 1982 New York City, U.S. [1] |
| Occupation | Computer engineer, author |
| Nationality | American, French |
| Genre | Science fiction, Fantasy |
| Notable works | "Immersion", "The Waiting Stars", The House of Shattered Wings , The Tea Master and the Detective |
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Aliette de Bodard (born November 10, 1982) is a French-American speculative fiction writer.
De Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, [2] 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 [3] and Locus Award for Best Short Story for her short story "Immersion". [4] She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars". [5] Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. [6] 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 is nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella . [7] [8] [9]
Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for both the Nebula [10] and Hugo [11] Awards. Her short story "Shipbirth" was also nominated for the Nebula. [12] Her novella On a Red Station, Drifting, released by Immersion Press in December 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula [13] [14] and Hugo. [15] 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". [16] Her short story "The Dust Queen" was published in the science fiction anthology Reach for Infinity in 2014. [17]
Her novel The House of Shattered Wings, set in a devastated Paris ruled by fallen angels, was published by Gollancz/Roc in August 2015. [18] [19] 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. [20] [21]
Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Vietnamese cultures are dominant. [22] 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." [23] 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." [24]
She is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. French is her mother-tongue, but she writes in English. [1] [25] A graduate of École Polytechnique, [20] she works as a software engineer [2] specialising in image processing [22] and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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| 2008 | "Butterfly, Falling at Dawn" | BSFA Award | Short Fiction | Preliminary Nominees | |
| Campbell / Astounding Award | — | Nominations Below Cutoffⓘ | |||
| 2009 | 2ⓘ | ||||
| 2010 | "The Shipmaker" | BSFA Award | Short Fiction | Win | |
| 2011 | "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" | Hugo Award | Novelette | 5 | |
| 2012 | "Immersion" | BSFA Award | Short Fiction | Nomination | |
| "Shipbirth" | Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominations Below Cutoff | ||
| Nebula Award | Short Story | Nomination | |||
| 2013 | Heaven Under Earth | Otherwise Award | — | Finalists | |
| "Immersion" | Locus Award | Short Story | 1 | ||
| Nebula Award | Short Story | Win | |||
| Hugo Award | Short Story | 2 | |||
| Theodore Sturgeon Award | — | Finalists | |||
| On a Red Station, Drifting | Hugo Award | Novella | 4 | ||
| Locus Award | Novella | 5 | |||
| Nebula Award | Novella | Nomination | |||
| "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" | Locus Award | Short Story | 10 | ||
| Theodore Sturgeon Award | — | Finalists | |||
| 2014 | "The Waiting Stars" | Hugo Award | Novelette | 3 | |
| Nebula Award | Novelette | Win | |||
| Locus Award | Novelette | 4 | |||
| 2015 | El ciclo de Xuya | Premio Ignotus | Mejor antología | 5 | |
| "Memorials" | Locus Award | Novelette | 5 | ||
| The Breath of War | Nebula Award | Short Story | Nomination | ||
| Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominations Below Cutoff | |||
| "The Days of the War.." | Locus Award | Short Story | 30 | ||
| The Dust Queen | Locus Award | Short Story | 4 | ||
| The House of Shattered Wings | BSFA Award | Novel | Win | ||
| "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" | BSFA Award | Short Fiction | Win | ||
| 2016 | "In Blue Lily's Wake" | Locus Award | Short Story | 14 | |
| The Citadel of Weeping Pearls | Locus Award | Novella | 4 | ||
| Hugo Award | Novella | Nominations Below Cutoff | |||
| The House of Shattered Wings | Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | 4 | ||
| David Gemmell Awards | Legend Award | Preliminary Nominees | |||
| "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" | Locus Award | Short Story | 4 | ||
| Eugie Award | — | Nomination | |||
| Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominations Below Cutoff | |||
| 2017 | "A Salvaging of Ghosts" | Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominations Below Cutoffⓘ | |
| Locus Award | Short Story | 5 | |||
| WSFA Small Press Award | — | Finalists | |||
| "Lullaby for a Lost World" | Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominations Below Cutoffⓘ | ||
| "Pearl" | Locus Award | Novelette | 2 | ||
| "The Citadel of Weeping Pearls" | Canopus | Short-Form Fiction | Nominationⓘ | ||
| 2018 | "A Slow Unfurling of Truth" | BSFA Award | Short Fiction | Preliminary Nominees | |
| "Children of Thorns..." | Locus Award | Novelette | 2 | ||
| Hugo Award | Novelette | 5ⓘ | |||
| In the Vanishers' Palace | Lambda Literary Awards | Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | Nomination | ||
| BSFA Award | Novel | Preliminary Nominees | |||
| On Motherhood and Erasure | BSFA Award | Non-Fiction | Win | ||
| The House of Binding Thorns | Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | 4 | ||
| David Gemmell Awards | Legend Award | Preliminary Nominees | |||
| The Tea Master and the Detective | BSFA Award | Short Fiction | Preliminary Nominees | ||
| 2019 | On Motherhood and Erasure | Hugo Award | Related Work | Nominations Below Cutoffⓘ | |
| 2019 | The Tea Master and the Detective | BFA | Novella | Win | |
| 2019 | Nebula Award | Novella | Win | ||
| 2019 | Hugo Award | Novella | 2ⓘ | ||
| 2019 | Locus Award | Novella | 2 | ||
| 2019 | World Fantasy Award | Novella | Nomination |
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