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Seven of Infinities

…e, but is drawn to Vân’s resolute integrity. When a mysterious corpse is found in the quarters of Vân’s student, Vân and Sunless Woodsfind themselves following a trail of greed and murder that will lead them from teahouses and ascetic havens to the wreck of a mindship–and to the devastating secrets they’ve kept from each other. Now in a UK and commonwealth ebook edition! “With this lush, immersive sci-fi tale, de Bodard (The House of Sundering Fla…

Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight

…of The House of Shattered Wings, The House of Binding Thorns and the forthcoming The House of Sundering Flames). The original novella, “Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness” is a comedy of manners set in the Dominion of the Fallen universe, where Fallen angel Emmanuelle attempts to throw a relaxing birthday party for her lover, and everything goes wrong in all the worst possible ways. Complete with supernatural fungus in a ballroom, meddling im…

My idea of relaxation

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I think it says something about me that I come home late and tired (having had 3 minutes of lunch pause, since lunch was spent in a meeting room with some sandwiches), and that to relax, I tweak the CSS of my website and do some edits… (not sure I want to know what) It hasn’t been a very good week: J. G. Ballard died, as well as Ken Rand, two people who will be much missed in their own way. I’ve had other bad news from other people I know. The go…

New story up

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…nto the next; her body bent smoothly, without visible stress. Khean’s face under the golden headdress was, as proper for a dancer, expressionless, but no tiredness appeared either in her eyes or in her gestures. Khean was good. Extraordinarily good, and fearless as well. That mattered very much for a dancer, especially one about to enter the Great Dance, the dance that would bring the monsoon rain but leave the dancer utterly paralysed. Nanpeng wa…

New article up

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…And, oops, too busy with the website tweaking to think of posting that… A Basic Introduction to Chinese Mythology and Folklore, at the Nebula Awards Website (with thanks to Charles Tan and Nancy Fulda)….

The Inaccessibility of Heaven

…wine wafting from those few bars still open; and above me, the distant light of the stars, a constant reminder of the inaccessibility of Heaven. I climbed the stairs to my flat, exhausted, my arms covered in claw-marks. At the shelter I worked at, drunken Fallen had started attacking some of the newcomers–and had turned on me when I’d tried to intervene. I fumbled in my bag for the key, wincing as the leather scraped against my skin. I didn’t blam…

Darkness notice

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…Packing for the Fourth Villa Diodati workshop, which will take place in Wickens farmhouse, a traditional English cottage in Kent: As usual, this blog is going dark, and I’ll probably not be in a position to answer emails until I come back Monday evening. (unless I find a handy internet connection, which looks unlikely)….

Rescue Party

…A Xuya story about a planet with a rather peculiar and creepy museum/archival system! Where to Buy Barnes and Noble Amazon US Amazon UK Buy now…

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…es and cars passing below. All his life he’d dreamt of flying, ever since the first time he’d seen a bird gliding through the air. From the airport, they took a cab to the royal palace on Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan, the single largest city in the world, sprawled around it for miles. The cab buzzed across one of the royal causeways, the water blue and shimmering in the hot sun. Inside the walled royal complex stood the Great Temple, meticulously ma…

Villa Diodati 4: the report

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…on the following crits were done on a full stomach. They involved people becoming one with nature and giant mechanical quetzal birds, and the crits were good and thoughtful. By common agreement, the collaboration was abandonned, having diverged too far on all sides to still make sense and remain a short story. It was replaced by a roundtable of craft questions, followed by a discussion of best markets, involving much scribbling and ordering. Then…