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This is the home page of Aliette de Bodard, writer of fantasy and science fiction (and the very occasional horror piece), Campbell Award Finalist, and Writers of the Future Winner.
Her debut novel, Servant of the Underworld, an Aztec mystery-fantasy, is out now from HarperCollins imprint Angry Robot (UK/Australia) and forthcoming September 2010 (US/Rest of the World).
Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of venues, such as Interzone, Realms of Fantasy, Asimov’s, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction.
She lives in Paris, France, in a flat with more computers than she really needs, and uses her spare time to indulge in her love of mythology and history.
As a half-French, half-Vietnamese, Aliette has a strong interest in non-Western cultures, particularly the Aztecs and Ancient China, and will gladly use any excuse to shoehorn those into her short or long fiction.
A more extensive biography is available here, and a list of her fiction can be found here.
In the resources section, you will also find lists of research books for Pre-Columbian America and Ancient China.
Here is a random excerpt from Aliette’s free online fiction (click on quote to refresh):
I came into the palace of the lords One Death and Seven Death through the great gates of obsidian, on foot, armed with nothing but a desperate resolve. There, in the depths of the underworld, I asked for my husband's life.
The lords' thrones were huge, and made of human bones pieced together: skulls and finger-bones, ribs poking out at odd angles. Everything stank of death. I stood, unmoving, awaiting their response.
The lords' faces lay in shadow, and I could not see their expressions. "Few mortals dare ask for a dead man's life."
"It is allowed," I said.
They laughed without pity. "Yes, it is allowed. Tell us, Sahague. Will you play our game?"
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from "Through the Obsidian Gates", Shimmer
Sale: “Heaven Under Earth” to Electric Velocipede
John Klima let me know this afternoon that he was accepting “Heaven Under Earth”, a sort-of-Chinese SF novelette for Electric Velocipede. Yay! Very much thrilled to be in such a lovely magazine again.
This was very much a group project given the number of rewrites it went through… Many thanks to everyone who took a look at it: Justin Pilon, Marshall Payne, Patrick Weekes, Oliver Dale, Pam L. Wallace, and the VD gang: Ben Rosenbaum, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Floris Kleijne [...]
Original Picture Credits
Pyramid: rawhead (distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License)
Portrait: Ines de Bodard
