In Morningstar’s Shadow (Dominion of the Fallen 0.5)

“I originally made this set of stories available as a preorder reward for The House of Shattered Wings. Now you can read them for free!” — Aliette de Bodard

Aliette de Bodard lives & works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Engineer. She ia also a keen amateur cook. She studied Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, but moonlights as a writer of speculative fiction. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Obsidian & Blood trilogy of Aztec noir fantasies, as well as numerous short stories, which garnered her two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award & a British Science Fiction Association Award.

Her space opera books include The Tea Master & the Detective, a murder mystery set on a space station in a Vietnamese galactic empire, inspired by the characters of Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson. Recent works include Navigational Entanglements, The House of Shattered Wings (2015 British Science Fiction Association Award), & On a Red Station, Drifting, a space opera based on Vietnamese culture.