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Cover for Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard (2021)
Publisher: Tor.com Publishing
AD/Design: Christine Foltzer
I'm a fan of Aliette's writing, so it was an honor to get to work on a few books with her!
round 1, poll 30
click for better quality & to see the full image. sometimes they get cut off weirdly!
which cover do you like best?
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir by Trish O'Kane
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!
Title: Fireheart Tiger | Author: Aliette de Bodard | Publisher: Tor (2021)
Sorry if this is invasive in any way, but I host a queer library at my university and noticed we do not have many authors of colour hosted in our collection. I enjoy sci fi and would like to put more of it into our collection, but I'd really like for some amount of it to feature authors of colour. I know Samuel Delany is a good author for this, but I was wondering about any beyond this.
I'd love to connect more people to works by people of colour, and I think it is a genuine necessity for our library to do so to be worth maintaining. Would you have any recommendations? Thank you.
Not invasive at all! I definitely do have some recommendations for books by BIPOC + queer spec fic authors, but they're mostly fantasy. Hope that's okay--if anyone has any queer BIPOC sci-fi books to add, please do so! (There'll be a lot of overlap with my earlier post.)
Anything by Octavia Butler. My personal favorites are Dawn, The Parable of the Sower, and her short fiction collection, Bloodchild and Other Stories (sci-fi)
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (sci-fi)
The Radiant Emperor duology by Shelley Parker-Chan (fantasy)
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (fantasy)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (fantasy)
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard, who also writes absolutely wonderful short fiction (fantasy)
The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera (fantasy)
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (fantasy)
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (fantasy)
Blind Beauty VS Fireheart Tiger
Blind Beauty
Fireheart Tiger
Blind Beauty by Jasmine Garcia-
On the isolated isle of Sarpedon, cold blood under scaly flesh pumps into a creature with snakes for hair, and serpentine features. Cast from society by the wrath of a Goddess, she is shielded by the bodies of stone along the shoreline. They warn off mortals; victims of her curse that had come to harm her. Soldiers, huntsmen, adventurers. Her curse afflicted all. All but one. A beauty by the name of Mirra washes ashore and doesn't succumb to Medusa's menacing sight. Thus begins the tragically romantic tale of a blind seer, and an untrusting gorgon.
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she’s returned to her mother’s imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria’s royal palace.
Thanh’s new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh’s home. Eldris won’t take no for an answer, on either front. But the fire that burned down one palace is tempting Thanh with the possibility of making her own dangerous decisions.
Anyway, the fire doesn’t matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all.
Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger