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Thank You, Yoon Ha Lee

Published 16 Dec 2019 by Gin Jenny

2019 has been a no-good very-bad year, but the creativity and work of many brilliant people has gotten me through it. As this stupid thankless year draws to a close, I’m writing thank-you notes to some of the people who made things that brought me joy in a dark time. Dear Yoon Ha Lee, Thank you for the matchless gift of Kel Cheris and Shuos Jedao. They are the quintessential match-up of stern stoicism and absolute ferality, and I fucking live for their uneasy alliance/?friend?ship? (Would we call them friends? I cannot decide. Uneasy allies, anyway!) I often find it…

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Authors in Fandom: An Interview with Yoon Ha Lee

Published 9 Sep 2019 by Gin Jenny

AO3 has won a Hugo, in light of which I felt it was time to revive my Authors in Fandom interview series, and I am very very thrilled to welcome Locus Award winner and multiple Hugo finalist Yoon Ha Lee! His book Ninefox Gambit daunted me a scootch before I read it, but I fell so intensely in love with it that I have never yet recovered. It’s about a dutiful space soldier who’s conscripted into sharing her mind with a long-dead military genius whose brain was put on ice after he inexplicably murdered his entire space battalion. Ninefox Gambit…

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2017 Reading in Review

Published 1 Jan 2018 by Gin Jenny

Well, 2017 was awful. And Trump’s still going to be president in 2018, so my hopes for the upcoming year are not that high. On the other hand, I’ve reached a sort of equilibrium with the family members who dumped me, so I won’t have to relitigate that whole mess in the upcoming year (said Jenny optimistically). And I’ve seen so much bravery and ferocity from people I know: Y’all stay inspiring me. With that said, I had a pretty terrific reading year in 2017. I encountered some new instant favorites, books I loved so much I shoved them at…

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Review: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

Published 14 Aug 2017 by Gin Jenny

WHAT. A GREAT. BOOK. WHAT A GREAT BOOK. I confess that I delayed reading Ninefox Gambit, recent well-deserved winner of the Locus Award for First Novel, given that all the reviews I read of it said that it was SF as hell and explained absolutely nothing. And look: That was correct information. Several people explained to me in advance the whole deal with calendrical rot and what it all meant, and even so, I was at sea for the first AT LEAST forty pages, like to the point that I did not feel confident I had grasped the meaning of…

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