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Floriane Soulas, born in 1989 in Paris, is a French novelist and short story writer of fantasy and science fiction, particularly in the subcategory of steampunk and space opera. Soulas start publishing in 2014 and won several awards since 2018.

Biography
Born in 1989 in Paris, Floriane Soulas attended a preparatory class, then an engineering school, the Carmaux School of Mines. She then completed a thesis in mechanical engineering. In addition to a career as a software engineer, she writes science fiction short stories.

Artwork
Soulas published her first novel, Rouille (Rost) in 2018. The work, featuring a prostitute's investigation into a wave of murders in a steampunk Paris, is described as "the first effective novel in a dark and relevant universe ". Soulas was awarded the prize prix ActuSF de l'uchronie, the Imaginales prize for high school students and the Chrysalis prize from the European Science Fiction Society.

Soulas second novel, Les Noces de la renarde (The Wedding of the female Fox), was published in 2019 and sets the scene in a medieval fantasy Japan. Soulas was nominated for the Elbakin Prize and won the Prix de l'Ouest Hurlant - Pocket Book 2022.

Soulas third novel, a space opera entitled "Les Oubliés de l'Amas" (The Forgotten of the Cluster), is published in 2021. The plot takes place in a sort of pirate city built with waste in orbit around Jupiter. The novel is described as a tribute to the great days of science fiction, inspired by Asimov's robots from the Star Wars racing cars or even the stations of Mass Effect. The novel is nominated for the Prix Rosny aîné Prize 2022 and obtains the European Prize Utopiales des pays de la Loire 2022. This book appears in pocket format in 2023 by Pocket Imaginaire, with the label "Étoiles montantes de l’imaginaire" (Rising Stars of the Imaginary proposed by the The editor Charlotte Volper), Floriane Soulas published the same year, Tonnerre après les ruines (Thunder after the ruins), a post-apocalyptic novel with Argyll editions.

Novels

 * Rouille, Scrineo 2018, Pocket, coll. « Science-fiction » no 7288
 * Les noces de la Renarde, Scrineo, 2019, Pocket, coll. « Science-fiction » no 7304
 * Les oubliés de l'amas, scrineo, 2021, Pocket, coll. « Science-fiction » no 7351
 * Tonnerre après les ruines, Argyll, 2023

Short Stories

 * Les Promenades nocturnes, published in Ex Machina, Elenya, 2014
 * Foudre, published in Dimension Routes de légendes, Légende de la route, Rivière Blanche, coll. « Fusée » no 54, 2017
 * This Land is Mine, published in Dimension Uchronie 2, Rivière Blanche, coll. « Fusée » no 81, 2019
 * Projet Cerebrus 199, Par-delà l'horizon, ActuSF, 2021
 * Planète 9,2023,Nous parlons depuis les ténèbres, Goater

Distinctions

 * 2018 : ActuSF de l'uchronie catégorie Littérature for  Rouille
 * 2019 : Imaginales des lycéens for Rouille
 * 2019 : Chrysalis Awards for Rouille
 * 2022 :Ouest Hurlant - Livre de poche for Les Noces de la renarde
 * 2022 : prix européen Utopiales des pays de la Loire pour Les Oubliés de l'Amas