This is an update to a post I did when The Universe of Xuya was previously a finalist for the Best Series Hugo in 2019.

The Universe of Xuya by Aliette de Bodard is one of the Best Series finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards.  As this point, there are two novels and 33 pieces of short fiction (4 novellas, 13 novelettes, and 16 short stories).  Since the main connection between them is the setting, they can pretty much be read independently and in any order.  Take a look at the author’s webpage about the series for suggestions on where to start and background information.

First, here are the stories included on that page (in the order listed there) with publication info and award recognition received:

• “The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, novelette, originally published in Asimov’s, Jul 2010; podcast available at StarShipSofa, No. 200 (audio only); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards
• “Fleeing Tezcatlipoca”, novelette, in Space and Time, issue 111 (Summer 2010)
• “The Lost Xuya Bride”, novelette, originally published in Interzone, issue 213 (Nov/Dec 2007); available online at the author’s website
• “Butterfly, Falling at Dawn” (pdf), novelette, originally published in Interzone, issue 219 (Nov/Dec 2008); available online at International Speculative Fiction, 12 May 2015; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• “Starsong”, short story, originally published in Asimov’s, Aug 2012; available online at Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, issue 48 (Nov 2015)
• “Shipbirth”, short story, in Asimov’s, Feb 2011; Nebula Award finalist
• “The Shipmaker”, short story, originally published in Interzone, issue 231 (Nov/Dec 2010); available online at Clarkesworld, issue 124 (Jan 2017); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois; BSFA Award winner
• “Ship’s Brother”, short story, originally published in Interzone, issue 241 (Jul/Aug 2012); available online at Clarkesworld, issue 88 (Jan 2014); included in The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun: Stories of the Xuya Universe collection (free ebook publicly available from the author’s Patreon); included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• “Two Sisters in Exile”, short story, originally published in Solaris Rising 1.5, edited by  Ian Whates (Solaris 2012); available online at Clarkesworld, issue 153 (Jun 2019); included in Year’s Best SF 18, edited by David G. Hartwell
• “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”, short story, originally published in Clarkesworld, issue 100 (Jan 2015); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection and The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction, both edited by Gardner Dozois; BSFA Award winner, finalist for the Eugie and Locus awards
• “In Blue Lily’s Wake”, novelette, originally published in Meeting Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Solaris 2015); available online at Uncanny, issue 22 (May/Jun 2018); included in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, edited by Neil Clarke
• “Crossing the Midday Gate”, novelette, originally published in To Shape the Dark, edited by Athena Andreadis (Candlemark & Gleam 2016); available online at Lightspeed, issue 89 (Oct 2017)
• “A Salvaging of Ghosts”, short story, originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 195 (Mar 17, 2016); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven, edited by Jonathan Strahan; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois; finalist for the Locus and WSFA Small Press awards
• “Pearl”, novelette, originally published in The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Saga 2016); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2, edited by Neil Clarke; Locus Award finalist
• “The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun”, short story, originally published in Cosmic Powers, edited by John Joseph Adams (Saga 2017); available online at Uncanny, issue 27 (Mar/Apr 2019); included in The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun: Stories of the Xuya Universe collection (free ebook publicly available from the author’s Patreon); included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• The Citadel of Weeping Pearls, novella, originally published in Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2015; reprinted as a standalone book (JABberwocky Literary Agency 2017); included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois; Locus Award finalist
• “Scattered Along the River of Heaven”, short story, originally published in Clarkesworld, issue 64 (Jan 2012); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition, edited by Rich Horton; finalist for the Sturgeon and Locus awards
• “Immersion”, short story, originally published in Clarkesworld, issue 69 (Jun 2012); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, edited by Jonathan Strahan; winner of the Nebula and Locus awards; finalist for the BSFA, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards
• On a Red Station, Drifting, novella, originally published as a limited edition hardcover (Immersion Press 2012), now available in ebook and paperback (self-published); finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards
• “The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile”, short story, originally published in Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2014; included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• “The Weight of a Blessing”, short story, in Clarkesworld, issue 78 (Mar 2013)
• “Memorials”, novelette, originally published in Asimov’s, Jan 2014; reprinted in Apex, issue 85 (Jun 2016); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; Locus Award finalist
• “The Waiting Stars”, novelette, originally published in The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt (Candlemark & Gleam 2013); available online at the author’s website (also in epub and mobi); available online at Lightspeed, issue 70 (Mar 2016); available online at Clarkesworld, issue 129 (Jun 2017); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; included in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois; Nebula Award winner, finalist for the Hugo and Locus awards
• “A Slow Unfurling of Truth”, novelette, originally published in Carbide Tipped Pens, edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi (Tor 2014); reprinted in Shoreline of Infinity, issue 11 (Spring 2018)
• “The Frost on Jade Buds”, novelette, originally published in Solaris Rising 3, edited by Ian Whates (Solaris 2014); included in The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun: Stories of the Xuya Universe collection (free ebook publicly available from the author’s Patreon)
• “A Hundred and Seventy Storms”, short story, in Uncanny, issue 11 (Jul/Aug 2016)
• The Tea Master and the Detective, novella, originally published as a limited edition hardcover (Subterranean Press 2018), now available in ebook (Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency 2018) and paperback (JABberwocky Literary Agency 2019); winner of  the Nebula and British Fantasy awards; finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy awards
• Seven of Infinities, novella, originally published as a limited edition hardcover (Subterranean Press 2020), also available in ebook (Subterranean Press / JABberwocky Literary Agency 2020) and paperback (JABberwocky Literary Agency 2021); Locus Award finalist
• “Rescue Party”, novelette, originally published in Mission Critical, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Solaris 2019); included in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5, edited by Neil Clarke
• “The Breath of War”, short story, originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 142 (Mar 6, 2014); included in the Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight collection; Nebula Award finalist

The following works (in order of publication) are not included on her series page but are labeled as part of the Xuya Universe elsewhere on her website:

• “First Presentation”, short story, in Chasing Shadows, edited by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts (Tor 2017)
• “A Game of Three Generals”, short story, in Extrasolar, edited by Nick Gevers (PS Publishing 2017), also available as an ebook
• “Mulberry and Owl”, novelette, originally published in Uncanny, issue 42 (Sep/Oct 2021); included in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, edited by Neil Clarke; Locus Awards finalist
• The Red Scholar’s Wake, novel, available in hardcover (Gollancz 2022), ebook (Gollancz / JABberwocky Literary Agency 2022), and paperback (JABberwocky Literary Agency 2022 / Gollancz 2023); finalist for the BSFA, Clarke, and Locus awards
• A Fire Born of Exile, novel, available in hardcover (Gollancz 2023), ebook (Gollancz / JABberwocky Literary Agency 2023), and paperback (JABberwocky Literary Agency 2023 / Gollancz 2024)

With many of the stories online, there’s quite a bit of available reading even without anything that may be included in the voters packet.  Have you read any of these?  Which ones do you recommend?