It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Her novel The House of Shattered Wings, set in a devastated Paris ruled by fallen angels, was published by Gollancz/Roc in August 2015. Her short story "The Dust Queen" was published in the science fiction anthology Reach for Infinity in 2014. The collection features two science fiction stories entitled "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" and "Exodus Tides". Her novel Servant of the Underworld (Angry Robot/HarperCollins) is a historical fantasy/mystery set in the fifteenth-century Aztec Empire.īodard's short story collection Scattered Among Strange Worlds was released in July, 2012. Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Chinese cultures are dominant. 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. Her novella "On a Red Station, Drifting," released by Immersion Press in December 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo. Her short story "Shipbirth" was also nominated for the Nebula. Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. She won the 2012 Nebula Award and Locus Award for Best Short Story for her short story "Immersion." She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars". When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow's Child with her.Īs they dig deep into the victim's past, The Shadow's Child realises that the investigation points to Long Chau's own murky past - and, ultimately, to the dark and unbearable void that lies between the stars. When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow's Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment. Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the appareance of environments easily modified and adapted to interlocutors or current mood.Ī transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow's Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. De Bodard brings us The Tea Master and the Detective, a new novella set in the award-winning, critically-acclaimed Xuya universe!
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