Isabel J. Kim Books In Order

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Isabel J. Kim is an American published author known for writing speculative fiction.

She lives close to New York City in an apartment that she says is filled with swords and books. She has written quite a bit of short fiction and her short stories have won her awards that include the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the BSFA Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award and the Sturgeon Award, and has been a finalist for the Astounding Award.

Kim’s work has done well and has been translated into many different languages including Japanese and Chinese. It has also been reprinted in many different best of the year anthologies. When she is not busy writing, she is either practicing law or podcasting.

Kim has been published in a variety of publications such as Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons, among others. She has also found her work reprinted in many different best of the year anthologies, which extended to the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy for 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Kim attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated two different times. She is very happy that she is able to use her creative writing degree far more than her degree in law. She spends a lot of her free time when she is not busy writing co-hosting Wow if True, her podcast on Internet culture.

Freediver is a 2025 book by Isabel J. Kim. If you’ve been looking for something original to read and enjoy, check this book out for yourself.

In this story, a two-man team has to take on a space walk when it is discovered that meteoroids are threatening portal spanning telecommunications cables that are 100 meters beneath the ocean while also being 45 billion light years away in the distance. What will happen and will they be successful, or is this a task too complicated to pull off? Read Freediver to find out!

Sublimation is a 2026 book by Isabel J. Kim. This is the debut full novel from the same author who has won multiple awards and has been nominated for her fair share too. If you’ve been searching for an intriguing story that keeps you turning the pages from the first to the last to find out what happens, check out this work and see what you think.

It’s being said that the border cuts you in two. Upon immigrating, one leaves a copy of themselves behind. While one person goes into their new country and start a new life, the other person has to stay at home, trapped there.

Some of the two people and the pairs decide to keep in touch with each other. They make the effort to call each other on a daily basis and maintain their minds and lives being in sync, hoping that one day they can reintegrate and pick up their life again living as one person together.

Some other pairs end up leaving their home at ten and choose to never speak to the other person again. Rose is in America and doesn’t imagine that she would go back to Korea until her grandfather passes away and her Korean instance calls her home so that she can go to the funeral. But when she gets there, Rose finds out that Soyoung Rose Kang has secret plans to steal her body and then take over her life, living the way that she wants to whether or not Rose has any desire to reintegrate.

This is a literary speculative fiction story that takes a look at the lives that we end up choosing and how they are often pitted against the lives that we all leave behind. It is the story of immigrants but also is a personal look at the longing that we can have for another life. Check out Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim to see what these characters do and go through and get a chance to read one of the fresher voices in fiction out there before everybody else.