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 four British Science Fiction Association Awards and was a double Hugo finalist for 2019 (Best Series and Best Novella).
Her most recent book is Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre-colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own. She also wrote Seven of Infinities (Subterranean Press), a space opera where a sentient spaceship and an upright scholar join forces to investigate a murder and find themselves falling for each other. Other books include Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders and its standalone sequel Of Charms, Ghosts, and Grievances, (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.), fantasy books of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She lives in Paris.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Obsidian and Blood series
Servant of the Underworld, Angry Robot Books and JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2010
Harbinger of the Storm, Angry Robot Books and JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2011
Master of the House of Darts, Angry Robot Books and JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2011
Dominion of the Fallen series
The House of Shattered Wings, Gollancz and Roc, August 18, 2015. Winner BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Finalist for Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel of 2016.
The House of Binding Thorns, Gollancz and Ace Books, April 4, 2017
The House of Sundering Flames, Gollancz, July 25, 2019
Xuya universe
The Red Scholar’s Wake, Gollancz, 24 November 2022. Nominated for the 2023 BSFA Award for Best Novel; shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
A Fire Born of Exile, Gollancz, 12 October 2023.
Other
In the Vanishers’ Palace, JABberwocky Literary Agency, October 15, 2018
Novellas
Xuya universe
On a Red Station, Drifting, Immersion Press, 2012. Finalist for Best Novella for the 2013 Hugo Awards, 2012 Nebula Awards, and 2013 Locus Awards.
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, Asimov’s, October–November 2015, and JABberwocky Literary Agency. Finalist for Best Novella for the 2016 Locus Awards.
The Tea Master and the Detective, Subterranean, 2018. Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella. Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Finalist for 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
Seven of Infinities, Subterranean, October 2020. Shortlisted 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella.
Dragons and Blades
Dragons and Blades is a spinoff series from de Bodard’s Dominion of the Fallen universe.
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, Jabberwocky, January 6, 2020. Shortlisted 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella.
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, Jabberwocky, June 28, 2022. Winner 2023 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction.
Other
Fireheart Tiger, Tordotcom, Feb 9, 2021. Nominated for 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Collections
Scattered Among Strange Worlds, Nine Dragons River, 2012. Includes short stories “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” and “Exodus Tides”.
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