Ninefox Gambit

“Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion.” —Alastair Reynolds?“I love Yoon’s work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time. It should be a treat for readers already familiar with Yoon’s excellent short fiction, and an extra treat for readers finding Yoon’s work for the first time.” —Ann Leckie“Starship Troopers meets Apocalypse Now – and they’ve put Kurtz in charge… Mind-blistering military space opera, but with a density of ideas and strangeness that recalls the works of Hannu Rajaniemi, even Cordwainer Smith. An unmissable debut.” —Stephen Baxter“A striking space opera by a bright new talent.” —Elizabeth Bear“For sixteen years Yoon Ha Lee has been the shadow general of science fiction, the calculating tactician behind victory after victory. Now he launches his great manoeuvre. Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new, this book will burn your brain. Axiomatically brilliant. Heretically good.” —Seth Dickinson“A high-octane ride through an endlessly inventive world, where calendars are weapons of war and dead soldiers can assist the living. Bold, fearlessly innovative and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards list.” —Aliette de Bodard“Daring, original and compulsive. As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer novel.” —Gareth L. Powell“Breathtakingly original” —The New York Times“Beautiful, vast and rooted in the real” —NPR“Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire is the kind of trilogy you love to discover — one filled with space battles, political intrigue, and technology so advanced it feels magical.” —SYFY“With intergalactic battles and political schemes, Ninefox Gambit is set in an inventive world governed by calendrical systems.” —The Portalist

Yoon Ha Lee is a Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. in math education from Stanford University, and is pursuing an MFA in media composition and orchestration at ThinkSpace Education.

His young adult mecha novel Moonstorm won the Locus Award for Best YA Novel, is currently a finalist for the Ignyte Award (YA), and was a finalist for the Nebula Award (YA).

Yoon’s novel Ninefox Gambit won the Locus Award for best first novel, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and Clarke awards. His middle grade space opera Dragon Pearl from Rick Riordan Presents won the Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature and the Locus Award for best YA novel, and was a New York Times bestseller.

Yoon’s short fiction has appeared in venues such as Reactor (formerly Tor.com), Audubon Magazine, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s anthology Take Us to a Better Place. His TTRPG Ninefox Gambit RPG, co-authored with Marie Brennan, was a Nebula finalist in game writing.

He has written comic scripts for Marvel (Doom’s Division #1-5 and “Epée Is Truth” in The X-Men: The Wedding Special #1) as well as game writing (Counterplay Games’ Godfall, Failbetter Games’ Winterstrike, Alderac Entertainment Group’s Legend of the Five Rings CCG).

Yoon’s hobbies include game design, art, and destroying the reader. He lives in Louisiana with his family and pets (5-string viola, morin khuur, spinning wheel… catten) and has not yet been eaten by alto clefs.

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.