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Yoon Ha Lee


Born
in Houston, Texas, The United States
January 26, 1979

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Yoon Ha Lee is an American science fiction writer born on January 26, 1979 in Houston, Texas. His first published story, “The Hundredth Question,” appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1999; since then, over two dozen further stories have appeared. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Cutting Corners

Forthcoming at Reactor: A team of pilots is trained to fly ships in a war where it’s become cheaper to send humans instead of machines.

The funny story behind this one is that I originally wrote this when I was literally a teenager (during undergrad, at nineteen). It bounced from a couple zines and I shelved it…then lost the file for over a decade. I could have rewritten it except I couldn’t rememb

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Quotes by Yoon Ha Lee  (?)
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“The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“All communication is manipulation,” Jedao said. “You’re a mathematician. You should know that from information theory.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

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May-July 2023 Nomination: A Trilogy
(one book per month)

The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
 
  34 votes, 28.8%

Oxford Time Travel by Connie Willis
 
  22 votes, 18.6%

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
 
  20 votes, 16.9%

Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee
 
  11 votes, 9.3%

The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert J. Sawyer
 
  11 votes, 9.3%

Helliconia by Brian Aldiss
 
  10 votes, 8.5%

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
 
  10 votes, 8.5%

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