What’s more exciting than one of your favourite authors getting new covers? Aliette de Bodard’s Dominion of the Fallen trilogy will be getting new US covers next year! I hope it’ll spark new interest in the series because it’s so good. I’ve read several of the stories in and around the world, and I get excited whenever Aliette talks about Thuan and Asmodeus. The trilogy has more interesting characters but these two are awesome together. The world and the gothic vibes held me captivated when I read the books, and I can’t wait to reread them.
Tara O’Shea created the gorgeous new covers. While the books are the same as before, the new edition will include more bonus content and introductions. This is a great opportunity to (re)discover the series.
Enter a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms and the mysterious Houses that hold the city together in this beloved series of fallen angels, devious alchemists, and Vietnamese dragons…
With a deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue as the various Houses strive for control of the shattered city, the DOMINION OF THE FALLEN trilogy asks ‘what is the price of power and what is the price of peace?’
Incisive, atmospheric, enchanting. These new editions of the award-winning trilogy feature bonus stories in the world of the Fallen and introductions by SFF luminaries Kate Elliott and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Perfect for longtime fans of the series and new readers alike!
The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback, wherever books are sold. Check out book 1 here.
Dominion of the Fallen Trilogy
Cover Artist: Tara O’Shea
Release date: 10 March 2026
Blurb for The House of Shattered Wings
Paris, turn of the century.
The Great War between magical Houses of Fallen angels has devastated the city. The Seine runs black with ashes, the great monuments are blackened ruins, and the Houses still fight. It is a quiet war of alliances and intrigues played in worn drawing-rooms and once-elegant gardens.
Silverspires, once the greatest House, is now nothing more than a minor player in those intrigues.
Philippe, a young man from the colonies of the East, is caught harming a helpless Fallen, and held prisoner in House Silverspires. His path intersects with Isabelle, the naive Fallen he has wounded; Selene, the insecure Fallen head of the House; and Madeleine, a washed-out alchemist addicted to angel drugs.
Together, they will either save the House, or cause its final, irrevocable Fall…
About the author
Aliette has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a European Science Fiction Society award, a British Fantasy Award and six BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Awards.
She is well-known for the multi-award-winning, Hugo-award nominated series The Universe of Xuya, Vietnamese-inspired space opera with sentient spaceships: a complete list of these stories and some additional background information can be found here. Short novels set in this universe include Seven of Infinities (Subterranean Press, October 2020, Locus Award finalist), and Nebula-award winning The Tea Master and the Detective.
Finally, she is the author of the Dragons and Blades series, comedies of manners, murders and family shenanigans set in a Gothic Vietnamese court, which comprise Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders and Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (2022 BSFA Award Winner).
She lives in Paris, France.
