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Yoon Ha Lee

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Yoon Ha Lee
Born (1979-01-26) January 26, 1979 (age 45)
Houston, Texas
Occupationwriter
NationalityAmerican
EducationSeoul Foreign School
Alma mater
Genrespeculative fiction, Science fiction, fantasy, poetry
Notable works
Notable awards
Website
yoonhalee.com

Yoon Ha Lee[1] (born 1979 in Houston, Texas) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer,[2] known for his Machineries of Empire space opera novels and his short fiction. His first novel, Ninefox Gambit, received the 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel.

Life

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Lee attended high school at Seoul Foreign School, an English-language international school, as his Korean American family lived in both Texas and South Korea. He went to college at Cornell University, majored in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in secondary mathematics education at Stanford University. He has worked as an analyst for an energy market intelligence company, done web design, and taught mathematics.[3] Lee is a trans man.[4][5]

Career

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Since his first sale in 1999, Lee has published short fiction in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and elsewhere. Three of his stories have been reprinted in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies. Dozois wrote that Lee is "one of those helping to move science fiction into the twenty-first century".[6]

In 2012, Lee wrote Winterstrike, a browser-based text adventure game, for Failbetter Games.

Aliette de Bodard wrote the introduction for Conservation of Shadows and has twice recommended one of Lee's stories in her best of year-round-ups: she selected "Ghostweight" as a favorite of 2011[7] and "The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars" was chosen in her 2013 eligibility and recommendations post as "the one that most blew me away this year".[8] "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" and "Ghostweight" were both nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and Locus Award and were both reprinted in two "Year's Best" anthologies. "The Pirate Captain's Daughter" was nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award.[9]

His debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, received the 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel.[10] It was also nominated for the 2016 Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Novel and the 2017 Clarke award.[11][12][13][14] Revenant Gun, the third novel in the Machineries of Empire series, was nominated for a 2019 Hugo Award.[15][14]

Dragon Pearl, the first book of the middle grade Thousand Worlds series, was released on January 15, 2019, and published by Disney Hyperion under the "Rick Riordan Presents" publishing imprint and became a New York Times bestseller.[16] Dragon Pearl won the 2020 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book and the 2020 Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature.[17][18][19][14] It was a finalist for the 2020 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the 2019 Andre Norton Award.[20][21][14]

Lee announced on his website that a third book in the middle grade Thousand Worlds series and Lancers, a new young adult space opera series, are forthcoming.[22][23]

In 2021, Lee's short story "The Mermaid Astronaut" was nominated for a Hugo Award.[14]

Bibliography

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Novels

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  1. —— (2016). Ninefox Gambit (paperback 1st ed.). Solaris. p. 384. ISBN 978-1781084496.
  2. —— (2017). Raven Stratagem (paperback 1st ed.). Solaris. p. 355. ISBN 978-1781085370.
  3. —— (2018). Revenant Gun (paperback 1st ed.). Solaris. p. 427. ISBN 978-1781086070.

Thousand Worlds series (middle grade)

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  1. —— (2019). Dragon Pearl (hardcover 1st ed.). Rick Riordan Presents. p. 312. ISBN 978-1368013352.
  2. —— (2022). Tiger Honor (hardcover 1st ed.). Rick Riordan Presents. p. 312. ISBN 978-1368055543.

Standalone novels

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Collections

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Short stories

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Title Year First published Collected
Glass Cannon 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Vacation" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Sword-Shopping" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Silence" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Seven View of the Liozh Entrance Exam" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Persimmons" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Omens" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Irriz the Assassin Cat" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Hunting Trip" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"How the Andan Court" 2019 self-published on Yoon Ha Lee's website

The Fox's Tower and Other Tales, Hexarchate Stories

"Honesty" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Gloves" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Bunny" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Black Squirrels" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"Birthdays" 2019 Hexarchate Stories Hexarchate Stories
"The Chameleon's Gloves" 2017 Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press Hexarchate Stories
"Extracurricular Activities" 2017 Tor.com Hexarchate Stories
"Calendrical Rot" 2016 An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables ed. R. B. Lemberg, Stone Bird Press Hexarchate Stories
"Gamer's End" 2015 Press Start to Play ed. John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson, Vintage Books Hexarchate Stories
"The Battle of Candle Arc" 2012 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #73 Hexarchate Stories
"The Robot's Math Lessons" undated self-published on Yoon Ha Lee's website Hexarchate Stories
Assorted flash fiction various available on Dreamwidth

Other short fiction

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Title Year First published Collected
"Bonsai Starships" 2022 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #349
"Lucky Day" 2020 Her Magical Pet: Benefit F/F Story Collection ed. Rachel Manija Brown, Laurie French, and Layla Lawlor
"Beyond the Dragon's Gate" 2020 A Tor.com Original, ISBN 978-1250621603
"The Mermaid Astronaut" 2020 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #298
"The Erasure Game" 2020 Take Us to a Better Place, Melcher Media
"The Second-Last Client" 2019 Lightspeed Magazine, issue #114
"The Empty Gun" 2019 Mission Critical ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris
"Entropy War" 2018 2001: An Odyssey in Words ed. Tom Hunter and Ian Whates, NewCon Press
"The Starship and the Temple Cat" 2018 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #244
"Obscura" 2018 Strange Horizons, 29 January 2018
"Welcome to Triumph Band" 2017 Welcome to Dystopia ed. Gordon Van Gelder, OR Books
"Shadow's Weave" 2016 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #200
"Falcon-and-Sparrows" 2016 The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction ed. Paula Guran, Robinson
"Foxfire, Foxfire" 2016 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #194
"The Cold Inequalities" 2015 Meeting Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris
"Interlingua" 2015 Uncanny Magazine, issue #7
"Variations on an Apple" 2015 "Tor.com
"The Old Road" 2015 Not One of Us, issue #54
"Snakes" 2015 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #106
"Apocalypse Foxes" 2015 Daily Science Fiction, June 2015
"Two Snakes" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Yearbird" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Wolves' Daughter" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Wolf Who Hunted Death" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Valley of the Bells" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Two Travelers" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Statue Beneath the Sea" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Sorceress's Cage" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Soldier-Sage and the Four Visitors" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Sky-Sister's Garden" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Raven Engineer" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Queen's Truth" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Queen of Bones" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Poet and Their Sister" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Phoenix and the Sorceress" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Phoenix and the Mirror" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The One-Winged Raven" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Other One-Winged Raven" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Naga Who Loved Books" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Moonbird and Her Children" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Mermaid's Necklace" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Mermaid Who Wanted to Fly" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Merfolk Mail-Order Catalog" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Mer's Library" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Maskmaker's Apprentices" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Magician and the Bones" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Lonely Castle" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Librarian Who Had No Cats" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Librarian and the Rider" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Land Without Shadows" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Incomplete Chess Set" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Girl and Her Mirror" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Ghost and Her Piano" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Forest and the Fire-Magician" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Festival of the Books" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Drowned Lands" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Dragon's Mirror" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Dragon and the World Egg" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Diver's Daughter" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Desert Dwellers" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The City of Hungry Trees" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The City of Cherry Blossoms" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Cats and the Witches" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Cat Who Loved Pies" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Cat Who Liked to Draw" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Cat Who Forgot How to Fly" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Candlevine Gardner" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Bird Who Carried the Sky on Her Back" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"The Arsenal" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"Shards of Sky" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"Rose Children" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"Friendship Bracelets" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"And a Taste Beyond Ashes" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"A Question of Foxes" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"A Little Light" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"A Breath of Light" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"A Benefactor" 2015 The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories The Candlevine Gardner and Other Stories
"Two to Leave" 2015 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #174
"The Graphology of Hemorrhage" 2015 Operation Arcana ed. John Joseph Adams, Baen Books
"The Queen's Aviary" 2015 Daily Science Fiction, January 2015
"Always the Harvest" 2014 Upgraded ed. Neil Clarke, Wyrm Publishing
"Distinguishing Characteristics" 2014 Dangerous Games ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris
"Warhosts" 2014 War Stories ed. Jaym Gates and Andrew Liptak, Apex Publications
"The Contemporary Foxwife" 2014 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #94
"Combustion Hour" 2014 Tor.com
"The Bonedrake's Penance" 2014 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #143
"Wine" 2014 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #88
"The Coin of Heart's Desire" 2013 Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books
"The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars" 2013 Lightspeed, issue #39
"Iseul's Lexicon" 2013 Conservation of Shadows Conservation of Shadows
"Effigy Nights" 2013 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #76 Conservation of Shadows
"The Book of Locked Doors" 2012 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #91 Conservation of Shadows
"A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" 2011 Tor.com Conservation of Shadows
"Conservation of Shadows" 2011 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #59 Conservation of Shadows
"Ghostweight" 2011 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #52 Conservation of Shadows
"The Winged City" 2010 Giganotosaurus, issue #2
"Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" 2010 Lightspeed, issue #4 Conservation of Shadows
"The Territorialist" 2010 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #47
"Between Two Dragons" 2010 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #43 Conservation of Shadows
"The Pirate Captain's Daughter" 2009 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #27
"Dragon Logic" 2009 Japanese Dreams: Fantasies, Fictions & Fairytales ed. Sean Wallace, Lethe Press
"The Bones of Giants" 2009 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 117, no 1&2 Conservation of Shadows
"Swanwatch" 2009 Federations ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books Conservation of Shadows
"The Fourth Horseman" 2009 Electric Velocipede, issue #17/18
"The Unstrung Zither" 2009 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 116, no 3 Conservation of Shadows
"Architectural Constants" 2008 Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #2
"Blue Ink" 2008 Clarkesworld Magazine, issue #23 Conservation of Shadows
"Behind the Mirror" 2007 Coyote Wild, vol 1, no 1 (Winter 2007)
"Notes on the Necromantic Symphony]" 2007 Farrago's Wainscot Part IV (October 2007)
"The Inferno" 2007 Behind the Wainscot: The Five Senses
"The Shadow Postulates" 2007 Helix SF issue #5 Conservation of Shadows
"Screamers" 2007 Ideomancer, vol 6, no 2
"Hopscotch" 2006 Twenty Epics ed. Susan Marie Groppi and David Moles, All-Star Stories
"Unstringing the Bow" 2006 Ideomancer, vol 5, no 2
"So that Her High-Born Kinsmen Came" 2006 Sybil's Garage, issue #3
"Nine Tails, Hundred Hearts" 2006 Fantasy Magazine, issue #2
"The Sun's Kiss" 2005 Ideomancer, vol 4, no 3
"Words Written in Fire" 2005 Shadows of Saturn issue #3
"Moon, Paper, Scissors" 2005 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet issue #16
"Eating Hearts" 2005 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 108, no 6
"The Third Song" 2005 Lenox Avenue, issue #4
"The Black Abacus" 2002 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 102, no 6 Conservation of Shadows
"Counting the Shapes" 2001 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 100, no 6 Conservation of Shadows
"Alas, Lirette" 2001 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 100, no 1
"Echoes Down an Endless Hall" 2000 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 98, no 4
"The Hundredth Question" 1999 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol 96, no 2

References

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  1. ^ surname/family name: Lee, first name: Yoon, middle name : Ha
  2. ^ "Author Profile: Yoon Ha Lee". Tor.com. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  3. ^ Interview with Yoon Ha Lee at Locus Online, excerpt posted Sunday 7 September 2014
  4. ^ Wagner, Wendy (2017-06-27). "Interview: Yoon Ha Lee". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  5. ^ Ana (2016-06-16). "SFF in Conversation: Yoon Ha Lee on Being Trans". The Book Smugglers. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  6. ^ Cover quote, Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows. Prime Books, April 2013
  7. ^ de Bodard, Aliette (2012-01-04). "Ye obligatory eligibility post, plus asking for story recommendations". aliettedebodard.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  8. ^ de Bodard, Aliette (2014-01-06). "Awards eligibility and awards recommendations". aliettedebodard.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  9. ^ "Yoon Ha Lee". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  10. ^ "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  11. ^ "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees! – The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  12. ^ "2017 Hugo Awards – The Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  13. ^ "Clarke Award shortlists". The Arthur C. Clarke Award. 2017-05-03. Archived from the original on 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  14. ^ a b c d e "sfadb : Yoon Ha Lee Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
  15. ^ "Hugo Finalists for 2019 Hugo Awards and 1944 Retro Hugos". 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  16. ^ Lee, Yoon Ha (2019). Dragon Pearl. Disney Electronic Content. ISBN 978-1-368-01519-6.
  17. ^ locusmag (2020-06-27). "2020 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  18. ^ "The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Awards 2020". www.mythsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  19. ^ locusmag (2021-02-15). "2020 Mythopoeic Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  20. ^ "2020 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  21. ^ Fictions, © 2021 Science; America, Fantasy Writers of; SFWA®, Inc; Fiction, Nebula Awards® are registered trademarks of Science; America, Fantasy Writers of; SFWA, Inc Opinions expressed on this web site are not necessarily those of. "2019". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved 2022-07-01. {{cite web}}: |first3= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ Lee, Yoon Ha. "News & Announcements". Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  23. ^ "Rights Report: Week of June 21, 2021". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
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