{"id":27597,"date":"2021-05-07T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=27597"},"modified":"2021-05-07T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:13:00","slug":"aliette-de-bodard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/07\/aliette-de-bodard\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab g\u1ecfi cu\u1ed1n with award-winning writer Aliette de Bodard in Episode 144 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Eating the Fantastic continues to play “let’s pretend” during this pandemic year, acting as if we got the real-world conventions we wish we’d had, rather than the online ones life handed us, it’s time to head off for a Vietnamese meal with the amazing Aliette de Bodard<\/a>, who\u2019s currently both a Hugo Award and Ignite Award finalist for her story “The Inaccessibility of Heaven<\/a>,” published last year in Uncanny<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

She’s the author of the Hugo-Award-nominated series The Universe of Xuya, set in a galactic empire born out of Vietnamese history and culture. She\u2019s also written the Dominion of the Fallen series, set in an alternate Paris devastated by a magical war, which includes The House of Shattered Wings<\/em>, The House of Binding Thorns<\/em>, and the The House of Sundering Flames<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny<\/em>, Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/em>, Lightspeed<\/em>, Subterranean<\/em>, Tor.com<\/em>, and other magazines. She\u2019s won three Nebula Awards, a Locus Award, a European Science Fiction Association Achievement Award, and four British Science Fiction Association Awards, in addition to being a finalist for the Hugo and Sturgeon Award. She was a double Hugo finalist in 2019 for Best Series and Best Novella, and was also a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009.<\/p>\n

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We discussed how best to deal with imposter syndrome, the way the pandemic contributed to her completing a long-unfinished story, the phone call which sparked her to focus on more personal stories, when she realized she was building universes rather than single stories, how anger over Revenge of the Sith<\/em> gave her insight into the kinds of universes she did and didn’t want to build, why the Shadow and Bone<\/em> TV adaptation wasn’t the escapist entertainment she hoped it would be, how writers can fight back against the cliches popular culture puts in our heads, whether writers can control the effects of their stories when they have no idea what individual readers might bring to them, how best to use anger appropriately, the importance of a story’s final line, what she wishes she’d known about writing rules when she began, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can take a seat at the table with us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be moved to sample some of the 143 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or listen using the embed below.<\/p>\n