Jay Lake

Jay Lake
Lake in 2004
Born	(1964-06-06) June 6, 1964
Occupation	Writer, product manager
Nationality	American
Period	Early 21st century
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Notable awards	Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2004)
Website
http://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 works as a product manager for a voice services company.

Lake writings have 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 was also a contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction.

Personal life

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.

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Poster for Lakeside, a documentary (in development) about Lake

Lake has publicly revealed his advanced case of colon cancer, He was diagnosed in April 2008, and it has since "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses." He has used crowd funding through YouCaring to pay for whole genome sequencing, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path."

Lake is the subject of a documentary called Lakeside – A Year With Jay Lake by Waterloo Productions. The film, which follows Lake's fight against cancer, had a special work-in-progress screening August 30, 2013 at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio. It is in post-production and is scheduled for release in 2014.

Bibliography

The City Imperishable

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

• Mainspring (June 2007) Tor Books (ISBN 0-7653-1708-7)
• Escapement (June 2008) Tor Books (ISBN 0-7653-1709-5)
• 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

• Green (June 2009) Tor Books
• Endurance (November 2011)
• Kalimpura (January 2013)

In addition to these three novels there are at least two more stories 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

• Calamity of So Long a Life (forthcoming)
• Their Currents Turn Awry (forthcoming)
• The Whips and Scorns of Time (forthcoming)
• 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" (Spring 2012, Subterranean Online)

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)
• Down In The Ship Mines (2012) in SQ Mag, Edition 4 (ed. Sophie Yorkston)

External links

• Official website
• Lakeshore, Lake's blog at LiveJournal
• Jay Lake at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database