Aliette de Bodard Books in Order

In the Xuya universe, a killing among refugees opens old wounds from war. This quiet, tense mystery cares as much about exile and memory as it does about finding the truth.

In Tenochtitlan, priest investigator Acatl is called to a room soaked in blood where a priestess has vanished. The case drags him into family conflict, imperial politics, and the dangerous attention of the gods.

The emperor is dead, the court is scheming, and star demons are being summoned inside the palace. Acatl must find the killer before succession struggles tear the Mexica Empire apart.

After a failed coronation war, a prisoner dies of a magical illness and the deaths do not stop there. Acatl is pulled back into court intrigue as Teomitl and the empire itself move toward catastrophe.

On a colonized station, immersion technology lets people smooth themselves into whatever powerful visitors want to see. When Quy meets a woman who has nearly disappeared inside that mask, the cost of cultural pressure turns painfully clear.

War and refugees are stretching Prosper Station to the breaking point. As old resentments deepen, Station Mistress Quyen and the Honoured Ancestress fight to hold their fractured family together.

This short fiction sampler gathers Exodus Tides and Scattered Along the River of Heaven, two science fiction stories about exile, family, and what survives when worlds, cultures, and homes begin to come apart.

This anthology of space opera stories, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt, gathers adventures with women protagonists at the center. It includes Martha Wells's Raksura tale 'Mimesis' alongside work by many other science fiction authors.

War, grief, and loyalty shape this Xuya story of two sisters pulled to opposite sides of a conflict. Mindships and old rebellions give the family drama a sharp, haunting edge.

This hard science fiction anthology includes de Bodard's Xuya tale A Slow Unfurling of Truth. On the isolated world of Tài Mệnh, identity testing, encrypted memories, and politics turn a routine case into something far more dangerous.

Three linked stories trace House Silverspires across war and aftermath in the Dominion of the Fallen world. It is a good place to see how grief, loyalty, and old damage shaped Paris long before the novels begin.

Emmanuelle wants a quiet life with her books, not a dangerous mission into a rival House. Then Selene walks into the library, and a theft, a flirtation, and a little explosion become impossible to avoid.

Thirty years after the Citadel of Weeping Pearls vanished, an engineer and an embattled court reach back into its past for answers. What they find is grief, imperial guilt, and technology powerful enough to reshape a war.

In a ruined Paris still reeling from magical war, House Silverspires is collapsing from within. A Fallen angel, a desperate alchemist, and a bitter magician may save it, or finish the job.

In a city built on buried cruelty, the dead refuse to stay quiet. This dark, unsettling fantasy asks what kind of comfort and prosperity can survive when innocence has been made into a sacrifice.

Before House Hawthorn's gates can open to them, Thuan and Kim Cuc must pass as ordinary candidates in a deadly test. Their covert mission grows even worse when thorn children begin stalking the corridors.

Paris is rebuilding, but peace between the Great Houses is another kind of war. Philippe chases forbidden resurrection while Madeleine is sent into the Dragon Kingdom, where diplomacy, addiction, and power games turn lethal.

Yên is sold to the dragon Vu Côn and expects the worst. Instead she becomes tutor to two children in a deadly palace where fear, desire, and long hidden secrets make every doorway dangerous.

Long Chau, a brilliant but abrasive scholar detective, joins forces with The Shadow's Child, a traumatized former warship who now brews tea. Their search for a corpse opens onto family secrets and the dark spaces between stars.

This collection gathers fourteen stories from the Xuya universe, Dominion of the Fallen, and beyond. It is a great way to see de Bodard move between space opera, Gothic fantasy, grief, politics, and family ties.

A devastating explosion shatters the uneasy peace between Paris's magical Houses. Thuan, Aurore, and Emmanuelle race to uncover the truth before fear, ambition, and old enemies set the city on fire again.

A politically charged speculative tale of upheaval, survival, and people forced to choose between old loyalties and a dangerous new future. Private grief and public conflict collide as the larger order begins to burn.

Lunar New Year turns ugly when dragon prince Thuan brings his husband Asmodeus home and finds a corpse outside their quarters. A family visit becomes a murder case full of court intrigue, knives, and marital strain.

Vân, a struggling scholar with an illegal mem implant, is drawn into murder when a body turns up in her student's quarters. The only ally she can trust may be Sunless Woods, a notorious thief who happens to be a mindship.

A Fallen shelter worker tries to survive another hard night in Starhollow, where former angels are exploited and a serial killer is at large. This noir story mixes urban grit with exile, grief, and quiet fury.

Princess Thanh returns from a childhood spent as a political hostage and finds her first love back at court, along with the memory of a disastrous fire. Romance and diplomacy soon become impossible to separate.

This omnibus pairs The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective, two Xuya novellas of imperial secrets, sentient ships, and sharp investigations played out across space.

Thuan and Asmodeus are meant to be on holiday, not investigating a corpse and protecting a ghost who saw too much. Family tensions, paper charms, and clashing ideas about the future make the case even messier.

Captured scavenger Xích Si expects death from the Red Banner pirates, not an arranged marriage to their sentient leader. As she and Rice Fish investigate a suspicious death, politics and desire pull them into open conflict.

Betrayed and left for dead, a scholar returns to the Scattered Pearls Belt in disguise with revenge on her mind. Love, class tension, and old secrets threaten to derail her careful plan.

Thuận Lộc returns to the Mausoleum, a graveyard of dead ships and old trauma, to help a desperate child escape. The rescue mission turns into a reckoning with the people who built power out of fear and sacrifice.

Khuyên returns to the sentient ship Nightjar for her grandmother's funeral and finds the old terror still alive. Children are disappearing again, and saving her cousin means confronting the ship that once ruled her life.

Four junior representatives from rival navigator clans are sent to capture a deadly Tangler loose in space. Then their leader is poisoned, and mission, politics, and romance all turn far messier.