My standalone fantasy Phoenix Extravagant is out from Solaris Books. It’s about a nonbinary painter teaming up with a pacifist mecha dragon against an evil empire (as one does), and it takes place in a magical version of Korea during the Japanese occupation.
I recently turned in edits to Tiger Honor, the sequel to Dragon Pearl, my middle grade space opera. It probably won’t be out until sometime in 2022, though.
My space opera trilogy, The Machineries of Empire, is available from Solaris Books: Ninefox Gambit (2016; Locus Award for best first novel, Hugo and Nebula finalist), Raven Stratagem (2017; Hugo finalist), and Revenant Gun (2018; Hugo finalist).
There’s a Machineries follow-up collection, Hexarchate Stories (2019). It’s half reprints, half new material; most of the latter is contained in “Glass Cannon,” a novella that’s a direct sequel to Revenant Gun. There is also a bonus Twine game (hypertext/Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style) about Cheris’s days at Kel Academy, from every spark a fire. (‘Ware the content notes!)
By request, a hexarchate faction cheat sheet. It has been updated with a link to the write-ups I did on the factions for Solaris as well as the faction emblem art that Solaris made. You might also want to try the faction sorting quiz for fun!
Other stories in the world of the hexarchate, which can be read as stand-alones:
- “Extracurricular Activities,” about Shuos Jedao back when he was a (living) hotshot spaceship captain, and a spy mission. A Hugo finalist.
- “The Battle of Candle Arc,” which is what it says on the tin.
- NEW: “The City Unbreachable,” a standalone f/f romance that takes place in the cloistered world of a generation ship fleeing the heptarchate.
- “Calendrical Rot” in An Alphabet of Embers, ed. Rose Lemberg, a vignette that started out life as the prologue to the rough draft of Ninefox Gambit.
- “Gamer’s End,” concerning a Shuos Academy graduate and a deadly game.
- “How the Andan Court,” a flash piece about the nature of desire.
- “The Robot’s Math Lessons,” on how a very young Cheris made friends with a servitor.
- “The Chameleon’s Gloves,” set before the heptarchate, concerning an exiled Kel and an art theft gone wrong.
- Assorted flash fiction set in the hexarchate/heptarchate, posted to my Dreamwidth blog.
For lagniappe, you can buy hexarchate prints at Deuce of Gears Art, or check out the orchestral soundtrack to Ninefox Gambit, “Ninefox March,” at Deuce of Gears on Bandcamp.