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Authors in Fandom: An Interview with Yoon Ha Lee

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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Review: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

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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