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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Aliette de Bodard
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- JABberwocky Literary Agency, Subterranean
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781625673664
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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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