News & Announcements

Recent and forthcoming books

My most recent book is Tiger Honor, the sequel to Dragon Pearl, my middle grade space opera from Disney-Hyperion.

I’m currently working on the first book of a YA space opera trilogy and the sequel to Tiger Honor. Wish me luck!

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 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. 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.
  • “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.
  • 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.

Support My Writing & Other Endeavors!

I now have a page up on Patreon. For those who haven’t heard of this before, it’s crowdfunding, but on a monthly basis for continuing support, rather than one-offs like most Kickstarters. In my case, I’m raising additional money for writing and other creative projects (music, art, tabletop game design).

You can support at any level from $1 on up, and the site will charge you monthly. There are a few backer awards at various levels of support, and I’m definitely open to hearing suggestions for other awards.

If you’d like to help out, please take a look, and thank you!

Alternately, for a one-time donation:
https://ko-fi.com/yoonhalee

You can also find my art and hexarchate prints at Deuce of Gears Art, and an Etsy shop where you can buy hexarchate and other ACEOs (original art cards).

Latest short story

Nonstandard Candles

I didn’t want to travel into the outer darkness, where all the stars were burned-out husks, but the mapmaker insisted.