Welcome back to Midnight in Karachi, a weekly podcast about writers, publishers, editors, illustrators, their books and the worlds they create, hosted by Mahvesh Murad.
This week writer Aliette de Bodard, writer of the Obsidian and Blood books and The House of Shattered Wings joins Mahvesh to talk about Aztecs, angels, making bread and having to draw divisions between speaking different languages. You can read an excerpt from The House of Shattered Wings here on Tor.com!
Midnight in Karachi, Episode 24 (37:24)
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Midnight in Karachi Episode 24: Aliette de Bodard
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I loved Three Cups of Grief by Starlight so much I sent the link to all my friends. It really is a short story that shows off the wonderful versatility of the science fiction genre. I’ve read all of Aliette de Bodard’s short fiction that I could find on the internet. One of my complaints about SF is it seems like you can either have hard science world building with no character or story, or character and story but word building that falls to pieces if you think about it for more than five minutes, and it’s a great relief to see writers like Bodard overcome this divide by making world building inherent to the characters themselves. Three Cups of Grief really does feel like a story about people just living their lives.