Yoon Ha Lee | |
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Born | Houston, Texas | January 26, 1979
Occupation | writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | Seoul Foreign School |
Alma mater | |
Genre | speculative fiction, Science fiction, fantasy, poetry |
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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
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
Since his first sale in 1999, Lee has published short fiction in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed magazine 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.[16] Dragon Pearl won the 2020 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book and the 2020 Mythopoeic Fantasy 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
Novels
- Machineries of Empire trilogy
- Ninefox Gambit (paperback 1st ed.). Solaris. 2016. ISBN 978-1781084496.
- Raven Stratagem (paperback 1st ed.). Solaris. 2017. ISBN 978-1781085370.
- Revenant Gun (paperback 1st ed.). Solaris. 2018. ISBN 978-1781086070.
- Thousand Worlds series (middle grade)
- Dragon Pearl (hardcover 1st ed.). Rick Riordan Presents. 2019. ISBN 978-1368013352.
- Tiger Honor (hardcover 1st ed.). Rick Riordan Presents. 2022. ISBN 978-1368055543.
- Fox Snare (hardcover 1st ed.). Rick Riordan Presents. 2023. ISBN 978-1368081924.
- Standalone novels
Collections
- Conservation of Shadows (paperback ed.). Prime Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1607013877.
- The Candlevine Gardener and Other Stories. Self-published. 2015.
- The Fox's Tower and Other Tales, Self-published, 2015; republished by Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2021 (ISBN 978-1524868130)
- Hexarchate Stories (paperback ed.). Solaris. 2019. ISBN 978-1781085646.
Short stories
- Machineries of Empire stories
Title | Year | First published | Collected |
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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
Title | Year | First published | Collected |
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"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
- ↑ surname/family name: Lee, first name: Yoon, middle name : Ha
- ↑ "Author Profile: Yoon Ha Lee". Tor.com. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
- ↑ Interview with Yoon Ha Lee at Locus Online, excerpt posted Sunday 7 September 2014
- ↑ Wagner, Wendy (2017-06-27). "Interview: Yoon Ha Lee". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ↑ Ana (2016-06-16). "SFF in Conversation: Yoon Ha Lee on Being Trans". The Book Smugglers. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ↑ Cover quote, Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows. Prime Books, April 2013
- ↑ de Bodard, Aliette (2012-01-04). "Ye obligatory eligibility post, plus asking for story recommendations". aliettedebodard.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ↑ de Bodard, Aliette (2014-01-06). "Awards eligibility and awards recommendations". aliettedebodard.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ↑ "Yoon Ha Lee". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ↑ "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ↑ "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees! – The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ↑ "2017 Hugo Awards – The Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- ↑ "Clarke Award shortlists". The Arthur C. Clarke Award. 2017-05-03. Archived from the original on 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "sfadb : Yoon Ha Lee Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ↑ "Hugo Finalists for 2019 Hugo Awards and 1944 Retro Hugos". 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ↑ Lee, Yoon Ha (2019). Dragon Pearl. Disney Electronic Content. ISBN 978-1-368-01519-6.
- ↑ locusmag (2020-06-27). "2020 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ↑ "The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Awards 2020". www.mythsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ↑ locusmag (2021-02-15). "2020 Mythopoeic Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ↑ "2020 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ "Rights Report: Week of June 21, 2021". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
External links
- Yoon Ha Lee at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalog records
- Yoon Ha Lee at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Interview at Clarkesworld, May 2013
- Review of Conservation of Shadows Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine at Strange Horizons
- Review of Ninefox Gambit by N.K. Jemisin at NY Times
- Short stories available free online