Aliette de Bodard

[16] 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.

The collection features two science fiction stories entitled "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" and "Exodus Tides".

[18] Her novel The House of Shattered Wings, set in a devastated Paris ruled by fallen angels, was published by Gollancz/Roc in August 2015.

[24] 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.

[1][27] A graduate of École Polytechnique,[21] she works as a software engineer[3] (as of 2024[update] in railway signalling[28]), and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.