- Fiction, fantasy, general, Paris (france), fiction, Magic, Fiction
Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage.
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- Author
- Aliette de Bodard
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 402
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Ace, Roc
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781473212558
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Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She is of French and Vietnamese descent, born in the US, and grew up in Paris. A graduate of École Polytechnique, she works as a software engineer specializing in image processing and is a member of the Written in Blood writers group.
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