Yoon Ha Lee

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Machineries of Empire

1 - Ninefox Gambit (Jun-2016)
2 - Raven Stratagem (Jun-2017)
3 - Revenant Gun (Jun-2018)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel

    Among the universe's civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as the sailing of bright ships, and others as tunneling through the crevices of night. Some look upon their far-voyaging as a migratory imperative, and name their vessels...

  • Conservation of Shadows

    There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted . . . In this debut collection of short fiction fro...

  • Combustion Hour

    This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets....

  • The Fox's Tower and Other Tales

    Science-minded fox spirits, tiger wives, books that can be read by anyone but their owner -- these and more appear in Yoon Ha Lee's flash fairy tales. Previously available online, they have now been collected in this volume along with four new stori...

  • Variations on an Apple

    "For the fairest." Past, present, and future. Again.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • Ninefox Gambit

    Machineries of Empire - 1

    To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general. Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics.  Kel Command gives her the ...

  • Extracurricular Activities

    A space opera adventure set in a distant future where an undercover agent has to go behind enemy lines to recover a lost ship and a possible traitor.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DR...

  • Raven Stratagem

    Machineries of Empire - 2

    Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion. When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-d...

  • Revenant Gun

    Machineries of Empire - 3

    Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion! When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cad...



  • Dragon Pearl

    Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such...

  • Hexarchate Stories

    NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR â€" WINNER OF THE 2016 LOCUS AWARD â€" NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS. An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon... A general outnumbered eight-t...

  • The Mermaid Astronaut

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  • Beyond the Dragon's Gate

    Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military has need of her expertise in order to prevent the destruction of their AI-powered fleet.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without ...

  • Phoenix Extravagant

    The new blockbuster original fantasy work from Nebula, Hugo and Clarke award nominated author Yoon Ha Lee! For generations the empire has spread across the world, nigh-unstoppable in their advance. Its power depends on its automata, magically anim...

  • Tiger Honor

    Thousand Worlds - 2

    Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Yoon Ha Lee's companion to the best-selling and award-winning DRAGON PEARL, another space opera inspired by Korean mythology, this time told from the point of view of a nonbinary tiger spirit."A zesty mix of ...

  • The Vela: The Complete Season 1

    In the fading light of a dying star, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and uncovers a universe-shattering secret. Orphan, refugee, and soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou doesn't think too much about the end of civilization. Her system...

  • Counting Casualties

    Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships, and planets in its path, but also consumes their greatest arts, somehow scratching them from existence everywhere…At the Publisher's request, thi...

  • Fox Snare

    While on a mission to cement peace between the Sun Clans and the Thousand Worlds, Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun get stranded on a death planet with Haneul the dragon spirit and Sebin the tiger spirit. To survive, the young cadets will ...

  • Ninefox Gambit RPG

    NINEFOX GAMBIT RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game of heresy and hard choices set in the tyrannical interstellar empire known as the Hexarchate. YOU belong to one of the Hexarchate's six factions. YOU are entangled with a regime that can change t...



  • Moonstorm

    In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fueled sci-fi adventure -- perfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward...

  • Starstrike

    In this explosive sequel to Moonstorm, teen mecha pilot Hwa Young returns to her rebel roots to fight against the Imperial forces -- but, as she grapples with her warring allegiances, who can she really trust? Perfect for fans of Iron Widow and the S...

  • The Starship and the Temple Cat

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Award-Winning Books by Yoon Ha Lee

Dragon Pearl
2020 Locus Award -- Young Adult Novel
Ninefox Gambit
2017 Locus Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yoon Ha Lee has published 22 books.

The next book by Yoon Ha Lee, Starstrike, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Yoon Ha Lee, A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel, was published in August 2011.

Yes. Yoon Ha Lee has 1 series.
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