Amazing Book Trailer – Aliette de Bodard’s “Servant of the Underworld”

We’re big fans of the book trailer, especially when it’s done well.

Angry Robot author Aliette de Bodard has created one of the best book trailers we’ve seen in a long time. It’s atmospheric, it tantaslises enough to make you want to read the book, and it has been put together with obvious love for the material.

Once you’ve watched the trailer, head on over to Innsmouth Free Press, where Aliette is interviewed about her interest in writing about other cultures.

I’ve had a long-standing interest in Ancient China, because it’s had such a strong influence on Vietnamese culture (and indeed on Asia in general). I read a lot of historical crime novels when I was a child, and among my favourite series was Robert Van Gulik’s Judge Dee books, which feature a magistrate investigating murders in Tang China. They depicted a culture that had a lot of fascinating ideas and a way of life that was very different from mine (Europe in the Middle Ages is still vaguely familiar; Tang China is very much farther afield).

Ladies and gentlemen of the world, Aliette de Bodard’s Servant of the Underworld.