![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not included here is my review of his latest collection, Hexarchate Stories, all set in the Machineries of Empire universe, because that review appears in the current (January 2020) Locus.Īnd Yoon Ha Lee's "The Black Abacus" ( F&SF, June) is a fascinating attempt at describing a war conducted in quantum space through the eyes of a spaceship captain and her (traitorous?) associate and lover. Particular favorites include "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain", and the remarkable "Iseul's Lexicon", from his first story collection, Conservation of Shadows. I've reprinted several of his stories in my Best of the Year volumes. But as I hope this shows, he was writing striking work at shorter lengths throughout, and getting better and better. He has a wider reputation now, after the tremendous success of his Machineries of Empiretrilogy. I found his shorter work intriguing from the very first story, "The Hundredth Question" in F&SF in 1999. I can't believe I haven't done a summary post on Yoon Ha Lee's short fiction. ![]()
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