{"id":540,"date":"2019-08-02T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uffe-stegmann.se\/?p=540"},"modified":"2021-10-17T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:21:32","slug":"universe-of-xuya-aliette-de-bodard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uffe-stegmann.se\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Universe of Xuya – Aliette de Bodard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On a Red Station Drifting – Nhan Y Doanh
Tithi Luadhtong (hardcover)
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls – Maurizio Manzieri
The Tea Master and the Detective – Maurizio Manzieri<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Universe of Xuya is the universe in which\u00a0Aliette de Bodard<\/strong> writes most of her space operas.<\/p>\n

This universe is a universe, where the Vietnamese are the rulers. They have developed mindships – run by artificial intelligences grown in human wombs.<\/p>\n

The societies are based upon old Vietnamese and Chinese traditions and societies, which makes for a fascinating and strange (to a Westener like me) backdrop and gives\u00a0Aliette de Bodard<\/strong> the possibility of writing space operas that are quite different from the usual ones based on Western military backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Done with the beautiful and precise prose of\u00a0Aliette de Bodard<\/strong> this makes for mind bending reading on top of the author’s very human and personal characters.<\/p>\n

At the moment the author has written approximately 30 stories of varying length in this universe – and she is working on her first novel in the Universe of Xuya.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Published separately at the moment are the three novellas above:<\/p>\n

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  1. On a Red Station Drifting<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The Tea Master and the Detective<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In September 2019 a collection of her short works (with lots of Universe of Xuya stories and Dominion of the Fallen stories included) will be published by Subterranean Press. Press the button below to read more.<\/p>\n

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    Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight\u00a0<\/strong>will be published in September 2019 by\u00a0Subterranean Press<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in a signed and numbered hardcover edition with a beautiful cover by Maurizio Manzieri:<\/p>\n

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