Aliette de Bodard
{{short description|French-American speculative fiction writer}}
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| name = Aliette de Bodard
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|11|10}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.{{cite web |url=http://charles-tan.blogspot.ca/2009/08/interview-aliette-de-bodard-by-marshall.html |title=Interview: Aliette de Bodard by Marshall Payne |last=Payne |first=Marshall |editor-first=Charles |editor-last=Tan |website=Bibliophile Stalker |date=2009-08-11 |access-date=2013-06-30}}
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| occupation = Computer engineer, author
| nationality = American, French
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| genre = Science fiction, Fantasy
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| notableworks = "Immersion", "The Waiting Stars", The House of Shattered Wings, The Tea Master and the Detective
| awards = {{Plain list}}
- Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2012)
- Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2013)
- Locus Award for Best Short Story (2013)
- BSFA Award for Best Novel (2015)
- BSFA Award for Best Short Story (2010, 2015)
- BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction (2018)
- Nebula Award for Best Novella (2018)
- Ignyte Award for Best Novelette (2021)
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Aliette de Bodard (born November 10, 1982) is a French-American speculative fiction writer.{{Cite web |last=locusmag |date=2021-03-15 |title=Aliette de Bodard: Where Is It Written? |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/03/aliette-de-bodard-where-is-it-written/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}
Writing
De Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future,{{cite web |url=http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10596 |title=Ghosts and Demons: An Interview with Aliette de Bodard |last=Ciriello |first=Dario |date=October 2009 |website=The Internet Review of Science Fiction |access-date=2013-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221115342/http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10596 |archive-date=2013-12-21 |url-status=dead }} 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{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/05/2012-nebula-awards-winners/ |title=2012 Nebula Award Winners |website=Locus Online |date=May 18, 2013}} and Locus Award for Best Short Story for her short story "Immersion".{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/06/announcing-the-2013-locus-award-winners |title=Announcing the 2013 Locus Award Winners! |website=Tor.com |date=2013-06-29 |access-date=2013-06-30}} She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars".{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/05/2013-nebula-award-winners/ |title=2013 Nebula Awards Winners |website=Locus Online |date=2014-05-17 |access-date=2014-05-17}} Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/2010bsfa/ |title=2010 BSFA Award Winners |website=Locus Online |date=2011-04-25 |access-date=2013-05-15}} 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 was nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella.{{Cite web|url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2018/|title=2018 Nebula Awards|website=The Nebula Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-19|last3=Fiction|first3=Nebula Awards are registered trademarks of Science|last4=America|first4=Fantasy Writers of|last5=SFWA|first5=Inc Opinions expressed on this web site are not necessarily those of}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/2019/04/2019-hugo-award-1944-retro-hugo-award-finalists/|title=2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists|last=Cheryl|date=2019-04-02|website=The Hugo Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/|title=World Fantasy Awards 2019 {{!}} World Fantasy Convention|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-25}}
Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for both the Nebula{{cite web |url=http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/ |title=SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees |website=Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America |date=2011-02-22 |access-date=2013-05-15}} and Hugo{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/04/2011-hugo-nominations |title=2011 Hugo Finalists |first=Patrick |last=Nielsen Hayden |website=Tor.com |date=2011-04-24 |access-date=2013-05-15}} Awards. Her short story "Shipbirth" was also nominated for the Nebula.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfwa.org/2012/02/2011-nebula-awards-nominees-announced/ |title=2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced |website=Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America |date=2012-02-20 |access-date=2013-05-15}} Her novella On a Red Station, Drifting, released by Immersion Press in December 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula{{cite web |url=http://www.sfwa.org/2013/02/2012-nebula-awards-nominees-announced/ |title=2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced |website=Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America |date=2013-02-20 |access-date=2013-05-15}}{{cite web|first=Aliette|last=de Bodard|url=http://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/novels/on-a-red-station-drifting/|title=On a Red Station, Drifting (description) |website=aliettedebodard.com |access-date=2013-05-15}} and Hugo.{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2013-hugo-awards/ |title=2013 Hugo Awards |website=The Hugo Awards |date=22 December 2012 |access-date=2013-05-15}} 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".{{cite web|url=http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/10038-aliette-de-bodard-scattered-among-strange-worlds-cover-art-and-table-of-contents |title=Aliette de Bodard – Scattered Among Strange Worlds cover art and table of contents |website=Upcoming4.me |date=2012-05-24 |access-date=2013-05-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628045741/http://upcoming4.me/media-news/book-news/item/10038-aliette-de-bodard-scattered-among-strange-worlds-cover-art-and-table-of-contents |archive-date=2012-06-28 }} Her short story "The Dust Queen" was published in the science fiction anthology Reach for Infinity in 2014.{{cite web |title=Step into the Stars: Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan |url=http://www.tor.com/2014/06/12/book-review-anthology-reach-for-infinity-jonathan-strahan/ |website=Tor.com |first=Niall |last=Alexander |date=12 June 2014 |access-date=13 December 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/Articles/News/Gollancz%20Aquires%20House%20of%20Shattered%20Wings.page |title=Gollancz acquisition |website=Orion Publishing Group |date=2014-11-20 |access-date=2015-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129010023/https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/Articles/News/Gollancz%20Aquires%20House%20of%20Shattered%20Wings.page |archive-date=2019-01-29 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/aliette-de-bodard-house-of-shattered-wings-roc-books |title=Roc Books Acquires Aliette de Bodard's The House of Shattered Wings |website=Tor.com |date=2015-01-15 |access-date=2015-03-09}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://file770.com/?p=28194 |title=2015 BSFA Awards |first=Mike |last=Glyer |website=file770.com |date=2016-03-26| access-date=2016-03-30}}
In 2024, she published Navigational Entanglements which has been included in the New Scientist's list of 'best new science fiction books of July 2024'.{{Cite web |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=1 July 2024 |title=The best new science fiction books of July 2024 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2437805-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-july-2024/ |url-status=live |archive-url= |access-date=11 February 2025 |website=New Scientist}}
Themes
Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Vietnamese cultures are dominant.{{cite web |url=http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/de_bodard_interview/ |title=Disrupting the World in Large Ways: A Conversation with Aliette de Bodard |last=Jones |first=Jeremy L. C. |work=Clarkesworld Magazine |date=December 2011 |access-date=2013-07-12}} 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."{{cite web|date=23 October 2018|title=Une interview : Aliette de Bodard – L'univers de Xuya|url=https://lepauledorion.com/2018/10/25/une-interview-aliette-de-bodard/|author-last=|author-first=|access-date=26 June 2022|work=L'épaule d'Orion}} 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."{{cite web|date=15 March 2021|title=Aliette de Bodard: Where Is It Written?|url=https://locusmag.com/2021/03/aliette-de-bodard-where-is-it-written/|author-last=Myman|author-first=Francesca|access-date=26 June 2022|work=Locus}}
Personal life
De Bodard is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. French is her first language but she writes in English.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/11/interview_aliette_de_bodard/ |title=INTERVIEW: Aliette de Bodard |last=Tan |first=Charles |website=SF Signal |date=2009-11-03 |access-date=2013-06-30 |archive-date=2013-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215022636/http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/11/interview_aliette_de_bodard/ |url-status=dead }} A graduate of École Polytechnique,{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/28/aliette-de-bodard-picks-up-two-sci-fi-awards-for-startlingly-original-fiction |title=Aliette de Bodard picks up two sci-fi awards for 'startlingly original fiction' |first=David |last=Barnett |work=The Guardian |date=28 March 2016 |access-date=9 May 2017}} she works as a software engineer ({{as of|2024|lc=y}} in railway signalling{{Cite web |last=de Bodard |first=Aliette |date=August 13, 2024 |title=I'm a railway signalling engineer |url=https://bsky.app/profile/aliettedb.bsky.social/post/3kzmsxblj3x2w |website=Bluesky}}), and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group. She is bisexual.{{cite web |url=https://bsky.app/profile/aliettedb.bsky.social/post/3l7je52wypz2t |title=And er, yes, sorry, I'm bi too #bi |first=Aliette |last=de Bodard |website=BlueSky |date=October 27, 2024 |access-date=October 28, 2024 }}
Awards
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Bibliography
{{Main|Aliette de Bodard bibliography}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100507035712/http://dario1.com/sf_wib.htm Written in Blood writers group]
- {{isfdb name|id=Aliette_de_Bodard|name=Aliette de Bodard}}
- [http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2013/08/aliette-de-bodard-convergence-point/ Interview (excerpts)] from Locus magazine, August 2013
{{Ignyte Award for Best Novelette}}
{{Locus Award Best Short Story}}
{{Nebula Award Best Novella}}
{{Nebula Award Best Novelette}}
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