Jay Lake

Jay Lake
Lake in 2004
Born	June 6, 1964 (1964-06-06)
Occupation	product manager
Nationality	American
Period	Early 21st century
Genres	Science fiction, fantasy
www.jlake.com

Joseph E. Lake, Jr. (born June 6, 1964) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon and currently works as a product manager for a voice services company. When appearing at conventions he usually wears a Hawaiian shirt.

Jay has appeared in numerous publications, including Postscripts, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Asimov's Science Fiction, Nemonymous, and the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. He is an editor for the Polyphony anthology series from Wheatland Press, and is also a contributor for the Internet Review of Science Fiction.

Early life

Jay Lake was born in Taiwan (his father is foreign service officer Joseph Edward Lake) and grew up there and in Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1986.

Bibliography

The City Imperishable

1. Trial of Flowers (October 2006) Night Shade Books (ISBN 1-59780-056-2)
2. Madness of Flowers (October 2009) Night Shade Books (ISBN 1-59780-098-8)
3. Reign of Flowers (forthcoming)

In addition to these three novels there are at least two more stories set in the City Imperishable:

• "The Soul Bottles" from the anthology Leviathan 4: Cities (ed. by Forrest Aguirre, Night Shade Books, Nov. 2004) is the first published story of The City Imperishable.
• "Promises: A Tale of the City Imperishable" (2008) in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (ed. Ekaterina Sedia)

Mainspring universe

1. Mainspring (June 2007) Tor Books (ISBN 0-7653-1708-7)
2. Escapement (June 2008) Tor Books (ISBN 0-7653-1709-5)
3. Pinion (March 2010) Tor Books

In addition to these three novels there are at least two more novellas set in the Mainspring Universe:

• "Chain of Fools" (Subterranean, Oct 2008) and
• "Chain of Stars" (Subterranean, Oct 2009), loose sequel to "Chain of Fools"

Green universe

1. Green (June 2009) Tor Books
2. Endurance (scheduled for November 2011)
3. Kalimpura (forthcoming)

In addition to these three novels there are at least two more story set in the world of Green:

• "A Water Matter" (Tor.com, 2008)
• "The Passion of Mother Vajpai" (with Shannon Page) in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 (ed. by William Schafer; to be published in April 2011)

Sunspin Universe

1. Calamity of So Long a Life (scheduled for 2012)
2. Their Currents Turn Awry" (forthcoming)
3. The Whips and Scorns of Time (forthcoming)
4. All Our Sins Remembered (forthcoming)

• "To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Ourselves" (New Space Opera 2, 2009, Harper Voyager)
• "Torquing Vacuum" (Clarkesworld Magazine, Feb 2010)
• "Permanent Fatal Errors" (Is Anybody Out There?, June 2010, DAW Books)
• "To This Their Late Escape" (The Sky That Wraps, August 2010, Subterranean Press)
• "A Long Walk Home" (Subterranean Online, Winter 2011)
• "The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future" (forthcoming, TBA)

Other novels

• Rocket Science (August 2005) Fairwood Press (ISBN 0-9746573-6-0)
• Death of a Starship (December 2009) MonkeyBrain Books (Sunspin Universe)
• The Baby Killers (novella) (August 2010) PS Publishing
• The Specific Gravity of Grief (novella) (2010) Fairwood Press
• Original Destiny, Manifest Sin (forthcoming)

Collections

• Greetings From Lake Wu, Wheatland Press (November 2003) (ISBN 0-9720547-2-3)
  • Greetings from Lake Wu; Signed, numbered, luxury edition, Traife Buffet (2006) (ISBN 0-9787494-0-5)
• Green Grow the Rushes-Oh, Fairwood Press (2003) (ISBN 0-9746573-2-8)
• American Sorrows, Wheatland Press (August 2004) (ISBN 0-9755903-0-8)
• Dogs in the Moonlight, Prime Books (August 2004) (ISBN 1-930997-56-6)
• The River Knows Its Own, Wheatland Press (September 2007)
• The Sky That Wraps, Subterranean Press (September 2010) (ISBN 978-1-59606-266-5)

Edited works

• Polyphony
  • Polyphony 1 (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (July 2002) (ISBN 0-9720547-0-7)
  • Polyphony 2 (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (April 2003) (ISBN 0-9720547-1-5)
  • Polyphony 3 (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (October 2003) (ISBN 0-9720547-3-1)
  • Polyphony 4 (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (October 2004) (ISBN 0-9720547-6-6)
  • Polyphony 5 (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (October 2005) (ISBN 0-9755903-5-9)
  • Polyphony 6 (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (December 2006)
• All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (with David Moles), Wheatland Press/All-Star Stories (October 2004) (ISBN 0-9720547-7-4)
• TEL: Stories, Wheatland Press (August 2005) (ISBN 0-9755903-3-2)
• Spicy Slipstream Stories (with Nick Mamatas), Lethe Press (September 2008)
• The Exquisite Corpuscle (with Frank Wu), Fairwood Press (October 2008)
• Other Earths (with Nick Gevers), DAW Books (April 2009)
• Footprints (with Eric T. Reynolds), Hadley Rille Books (July 2009) (ISBN 0-9819243-9-5)

External links

• Jay Lake's Homepage, the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and links to some of his stories online.
• http://jaylake.livejournal.com/
• Interview with Jay Lake at Neth Space
• 2003 Interview at Ideomancer
• 2004 Interview at Strange Horizons
• Excerpt from 2006 Interview at Locus Magazine
• The Limited edition of Greetings from Lake Wu
• Night Shade Books publisher of The City Imperishable series
• Winding the Mainspring by Jay Lake (an article)
• "Golden Pepper", a story at Flash Fiction Online
• Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story story co-written with Shannon Page, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2009
• The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black (story), Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2008
• Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, November 2009
• Interview at Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2010
• Jay Lake at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database