Aliette de Bodard Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Obsidian and Blood Books
Servant of the Underworld | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harbinger of the Storm | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Master of the House of Darts | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dominion of the Fallen Books
Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Morningstar's Shadow | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House of Shattered Wings | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House of Binding Thorns | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #261 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House of Sundering Flames | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dragons and Blades Books
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
In the Vanishers’ Palace | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fire of Ten Thousand Flags | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Jaguar House, in Shadow | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Immersion | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On a Red Station, Drifting | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heaven Under Earth (Electric Velocipede #24) | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Waiting Stars | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memorials | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lullaby for a Lost World | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of Thorns, Children of Water | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Inaccessibility of Heaven | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tea and Murder | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fireheart Tiger | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Fox Spirit Books of Monsters Books
European Monsters | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pacific Monsters | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Monsters: Part 1 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Xuya Universe Books
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tea Master and the Detective | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven of Infinities | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Xuya Universe Romance Books
The Red Scholar’s Wake | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fire Born of Exile | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eight Against Reality | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopia SF | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Talebones | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Million Writers Award | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Electric Velocipede | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2015 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, November 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Other Half of the Sky | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New SF 26 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We See a Different Frontier | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Speculative Fiction 2013: The Year's Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld: Year Six | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Solaris Rising 3 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carbide Tipped Pens | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100, January 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Tiptree | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Hurts | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Warrior Women | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fantasy Medley 3 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Shape the Dark | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mithila Review Issue 5+6 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Starlit Wood | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barcelona Tales | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asian Monsters | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galactic Empires | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales from the Edge: Escalation: A Maelstrom's Edge Collection | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Wars | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of a Different Sky | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology Volume 3: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Uncanny | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld Year Nine: Volume One | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mechanical Animals | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Accelerator | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
London Centric | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silk & Steel | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology Volume 8: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aliette de Bodard is an American author of fiction. She was born in the United States but was raised in the city of Paris in France. Although she was raised by her parents in France and speaks French as her primary language, she speaks English as well which she learned at the insistence of her parents.
Her first book is titled Servant of the Underworld and was published in 2010. It is the first of three books in the Obsidian and Blood Trilogy, followed by Harbinger of the Storm published in 2011 and the final book Master of the House of Darts, published the same year. An omnibus of the trilogy was published in 2012.
She also wrote the Universe of Xuya series, consisting of On a Red Station, Drifting (published in 2012) and The Citadel of Weeping Pearls (2017). She has also written the Dominion of the Fallen series, with four novels in the series that include the first book Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship, with later novels The House of Shattered Wings and the follow-up, The House of Binding Thorns rounding it out.
She is the winner of the British Science Fiction Association Best Book Award for her 2015 novel, The House of Shattered Wings. Aliette de Bodard is also the author of the novellas Lullaby for a Lost World and has worked on a number of collections, including Dark Currents, Scattered Among Strange Worlds, and more.
Servant of the Underworld is the first in the Obsidian and Blood trilogy series. It takes place in Tenochtitlan, well known for being the capital of the thriving Aztec empire. The year is Year One-Knife. The main character is named Ceyaxochitl, and she happens to be the second in command when it comes to the Mexica Empire.
Acatl-tzin is a High Priest of the Dead and he operates as a person of importance in a world where the people believe that the end of the world can only be offset by using human sacrifice. When he is interrupted right in the smack dab middle of a ceremony for a dead noble that is intended to ease his passage to the Underworld, Ceyaxochitl requests that he attend to the scene of a crime.
A Priestess has gone missing from her empty chambers and all that remains behind is a tremendous amount of blood in addition to the smell of Jagua magic. Ceyaxochitl would normally handle the investigation of the murder or at least the abduction herself, but she has a lot on her plate at the moment dealing with the matters of the empire. Not only that, the prime suspect they have for the crime is the estranged brother of Acatl, so it only makes sense to have the high priest in charge of the investigation and hopefully finding the priestess.
It’s up to the high priest to find this woman or else risk having the boundaries between the world of the living and the dead be broken down with all chaos to break loose– and potentially face the end of the world. Since his counterpart is very busy with her official duties, Acatl must take over. Fortunately, his relationship with the supernatural and the Underworld means that he will be able to use his magical abilities to look into the case and find answers that others would not otherwise be able to.
But Acatl suspects that his warrior brother might be behind it all, and he’s going to need to confront their past where his parents shunned him for wanting to be a priest and their status as enemies if he will be able to find out if it is true. When the investigation gets even more complicated he must take on the confident Teomitl as an aide. With a society plagued by power struggles and imbalance and even gods walking among them, everything is uncertain.
In this world, women are too old at thirty-five and must take a husband or become priestesses. They are still below men even while being in the priesthood, while men who go to war are held up high in regard in the culture and even awarded courtesans.
Through it all, Acatl must search the person responsible for the disappearance of the priestess Eleuia while everything and everyone else seems to be pursuing their own interests. This fantasy set in the heart of Mesoamerica in a very specific time involves blood magic, death, mystery, and the entry into an exciting and somewhat historical world full of political intrigue and drama that is lush in its detail. Read this book for yourself to see how the mystery turns out!
Harbinger of the Storm is the second book in the Obsidian and Blood series. This sequel is also set in the Aztec empire in a world that is again teetering on the brink of going completely extinct. The main character is once more Acatl, who remains the High Priest of the Dead in Tenochtitlan. He works as the keeper of the boundaries between the living and the dead and works also as a coroner and director of funerals when he needs to.
Still humble and quiet, Acatl has grown accustomed to his duties and is fresh off solving a mystery involving the disappearance of the high priestess and magic. Now he has a new problem on his hands when a nobleman who is very high ranking– The Revered Speaker, the ruler of Tenochtitlan– turns up dead. Not only dead but ripped up into pieces thanks to an invocation. Not only that, another council member turns up dead, looking like murder, and more deaths follow after that.
Acatl has to get involved because the killer has violated the ancient barriers by using forbidden magic that has huge consequences. Not only that, but it’s starting to look like the person who cast the spell belongs to the court. Now he must find the killer and save the area from the chaos and even the apocalypse of demons unfolding from this forbidden magic.
This fifteenth-century Aztec murder mystery follows the basics of a fictional Aztec society and how the people interact with the gods and goddesses, who depend on people for their devotion but also manipulate them to suit their own agendas, even if he would prefer that they stay out of it and had no thirst for human blood through sacrifice in the first place. Can Acatl solve the mystery? We’re about to find out, and see Acatl tackle one last hurdle in the final book, Master of the House of Darts
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