Hexarchate Stories

by Yoon Ha Lee

Overview

The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.

An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon... A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent... A renegade returns from seclusion to bury an old comrade...

From the incredible imagination of Hugo- and Arthur C. Clarke-nominated author Yoon Ha Lee comes a collection of stories set in the world of the best-selling Ninefox Gambit. Showcasing Lee's extraordinary imagination, this collection takes you to the very beginnings of the hexarchate's history and reveals new never-before-seen stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781085646
Publisher:	Solaris
Publication date:	06/25/2019
Series:	Machineries of Empire Series
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	625,669
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Yoon Ha Lee's debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards. Its sequels, Raven Stratagem and Revenant Gun, were also Hugo finalists. His middle grade novel Dragon Pearl was a New York Times bestseller, and won the Mythopoeic Award and the Locus Award for YA. His most recent book is Tiger Honor, a companion novel to Dragon Pearl. Lee lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.

Editorial Reviews

07/08/2019

This slight but charming collection of new and reprinted stories set in bestseller Lee’s Machineries of Empire universe (Revenant Gun) is primarily for fans of his novels. “Extracurricular Activities” and the art heist story “The Chameleon’s Gloves,”are solidly self-contained, as are originals “Silence,” a family reunion; “Gloves,” an arousing exploration of Brig. Gen. Shuos Jedao’s kink preferences; and “Glass Cannon,” a dizzying exercise in the long and complicated coexistence of Machineries of Empire protagonists Shuos Jedao and Ajewen Cheris. Other tales, such as “How the Andan Court,” are so brief as to be prose poems, or are meditations on the creatures of the universe. Lee provides enough context within stories for new readers to navigate and may be drawn to try out the novels, but the nuances are best appreciated by fans of the Hexarchate universe. Given that Lee is also a game creator, these stories might be thought of as Easter eggs for the Hexarchate series: they enhance understanding of some of the characters and cultural nuances and explain some authorial intent, but they’re not required reading. (June)

Publishers Weekly