Yoon Ha Lee Books In Order
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Ninefox Gambit | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raven Stratagem | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revenant Gun | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hexarchate Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Thousand Worlds Books
Dragon Pearl | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tiger Honor | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fox Snare | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Effigy Nights | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conservation of Shadows | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Combustion Hour | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fox's Tower and Other Tales | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Variations on an Apple | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extracurricular Activities | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mermaid Astronaut | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Candlevine Gardener and Other Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond the Dragon's Gate | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Counting Casualties | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles 11 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of The Vela Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jabberwocky 2 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Fantasy | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume One | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Realms 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year One | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Million Writers Award | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ceaseless Steam | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aliens: Recent Encounters | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld: Year Five | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Upgraded | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Warrior Women | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2015 edition | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld: Year Eight | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Alphabet of Embers | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Smugglers' Quarterly Almanac: Volume 2 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galactic Empires | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology Volume 3: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018 Edition | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Transcendent 3 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Take Us to a Better Place | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Metal Chapters: Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Her Magical Pet: Benefit F/F Story Collection | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology, Volume 6: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silk & Steel | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Author Yoon Ha Lee was born in January 26, 1979 in Houston, Texas and is a Korean American. He writes fantasy and science fiction stories; he also writes military fiction and fairy tales. Most of what Lee writes are short stories, but has written some poetry as well. As a child, he lived in both South Korea and in the state of Texas. It was in Korea that he went to high school, and learned English at the international school.
For college, Lee went to Cornell University where he majored in mathematics; he would later get his master’s in secondary mathematics education at Stanford University. Lee has taught mathematics, worked in web design, and worked as an analyst for an energy market intelligence company. He finds that math is a subject that can be mined for story ideas.
His writing has been published in many different magazines and anthologies since his first sale in the year 1999 (it was a story called “The Hundredth Question”). Over two dozen stories have followed since then. Lee finally published his first collection of some of his stories in the year 2013, when “Conservation of Shadows” came out. This includes Gardner Dozois’s yearly best science fiction of the year anthology; Lee has had three stories published in this in the past. Two other of Lee’s stories were re-printed in other best stories of the year anthologies.
He was born a female, but later became a man; he knew that at around the age of twelve that he identified more like a man than a woman. In Texas, he wrote his first story while he was in middle school. It featured a trans character that changes their gender in the middle of the story. A teacher saw him writing all the time and wanted to read the story he worked on. So he showed it to the teacher, and in Texas, what he had written about was something that caused the teacher to get his parents involved. This lead to more and more conversing between the teacher and his parents. After that, his mother tried to get him to act more like a proper female. He was told not to stomp when he walked, talk softer, and to wear makeup. Lee would not give in to what his mother wanted him to do. For quite a while, Lee would not write about any trans characters, finding that it was like he was slitting his wrists for the world to see and enjoy.
He lives in the state of Louisiana with his husband and their daughter and a very lazy cat.
“Ninefox Gambit” is Yoon Ha Lee’s debut novel and first novel in the “Machineries of Empire” series that came out in the year 2016. Kel Cheris (she has a great mind for mathematics) is disgraced for going to unconventional lengths to win a battle against heretics. Kel Command allows her the ability to redeem herself, but she must retake the Fortress of Scattered Needles (which is a star fortress, recently captured by the heretics). Cheris’s career is only one of the things that is at stake here. If the fortress does in fact fall, then the hexarchate might be next to fall. Shuos Jedao (an undead and brilliant tactician) is her best hope as an ally. Jedao never lost a battle, and might be the sole person who can figure a way to besiege the fortress. That is the good news. The bad news is much worse. While alive, Jedao went mad and slaughtered two armies, one of which was his own. The siege goes on, and the longer it does, the more she has to decide how much she can trust the dead general. She may just be his next victim.
Fans of the novel found that the novel captivates the reader and finds that it is not the typical in military fiction that is out there. Some things are not explicit, but the reader is required to figure out some things for themselves. There is a nuance to the world that has been built by the author here. Some found that there was some humorous parts in the book that they did not see coming, but they liked them anyway. Some found that the book is not for everyone, but it is a great read. This novel has a feel to it that you are simply dumped into things without much of an explanation. It is more up to the reader whether or not they will continue reading the story. It has a great character-driven story. Some felt that this was a novel that you may have to read a few times to really and completely understand what is going on.
“Raven Stratagem” is the second novel in the “Machineries of Empire” series that came out in the year 2017. Captain Kel Cheris has been possessed by a general that has been long dead and was a traitor while alive. The pair must both face what may be quite a bad invasion and the rivaling hexarchate. The gifted captain for the hexarchate, who is young and named Kel Cheris, summoned the ghost of General Shuos Jedao, she had no idea that he would break free from his centuries long imprisonment and possess her. The Hafn, an enemy race, is invading the planet; Jedao takes over the fleet that belongs to General Kel Khiruev. The job of the fleet was to stop the invasion from succeeding. Only Lieutenant Colonel Kel Brezan (the subordinate to Khiruev) is able to resist the influence that Jedao, a brilliant but also psychotic ghost. Jedao says that he wants to defend the hexarchate, but is really to be trusted? Will the masters wipe out the whole fleet just to take out the rogue general?
Lee has been nominated for the Locus and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the stories “Flower, Mercy Needle, Chain” and “Ghostweight”. “WSFA Small Press Award” nominated “The Pirate Captain’s Daughter”. “Ninefox Gambit” was nominated for the best novel award by Nebula in 2016. It has been said about Lee’s work that he is an author that is helping to bring science fiction and fantasy into the twenty-first century.
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