Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for both the Nebula[11] and Hugo[12] Awards. Her short story "Shipbirth" was also nominated for the Nebula.[13] Her novella On a Red Station, Drifting, released by Immersion Press in December 2012, was a finalist for the Nebula[14][15] and Hugo.[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.
Bodard's short story collection Scattered Among Strange Worlds was released in July, 2012. The collection features two science fiction stories entitled "Scattered Along the River of Heaven" and "Exodus Tides".[17] Her short story "The Dust Queen" was published in the science fiction anthology Reach for Infinity in 2014.[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.[19][20] It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 2015. Her story "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" won the BSFA Award for Best Short Story of 2015, the first time a single author has ever won both fiction categories in the same year.[21][22]
Themes
Many of her stories are set in alternate history worlds where Aztec or pre-communist Vietnamese cultures are dominant.[23] 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."[24] In a 2021 interview with Locus, she stated that she tried to write "parent-child relationships, and very often a mother-daughter relationship, because that's a thing you don't often see, aside from the controlling mother and the estranged mother. You don't even often see characters with dead mothers – the mothers tend to just fade out."[25]
