Aliette de Bodard
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Aliette de Bodard in 2013
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| Born | New York City, USA |
| Occupation | Computer engineer, author |
| Nationality | American, French |
| Genre | Science fiction, Fantasy |
| Notable works | "Immersion," "The Waiting Stars" |
| Notable awards | Nebula Award (2012, 2013), BSFA Award for Best Novel (2015), BSFA Award for Best Short Story (2010,2015) |
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Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She is of French/Vietnamese descent, born in the USA, and grew up in Paris. French is her mother-tongue, but she writes in English. She works as a software engineer specialising in image processing and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
She was a 2007 winner of Writers of the Future, 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 and Locus Award for Best Short Story for her short story "Immersion." She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars.". Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction.
Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. Her short story "Shipbirth" was also nominated for the Nebula. Her novella "On a Red Station, Drifting," released by Immersion Press in December 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo. 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.
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