Bøger af Yoon Ha Lee

Shuos Jedao is awake.... and nothing is as he remembers. In his mind he's a teenager, a cadet-a nobody. But he finds himself in the body of an old man, a general controlling the elite forces of the hexarchate, and the most feared man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate.

Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies as a weapon, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris.Now, General Kel Khiruev's fleet, racing to the Severed March to stop a fresh enemy incursion, has fallen under Jedao's sway.

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...

Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her home. Now a citizen of the very empire that orphaned her, she dreams of getting back out among the stars and piloting a lancer—the fleet’s deadliest, most advanced fighting craft. Then a rebel attack makes her dreams a reality...

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-fuled sci-fi adventure—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!In the far future, one of Earth’s lost colonies discovered advanced technology, but it came at a steep price. In the Empire of New Joseon, gravity can be manipulated—in fact, adhering to certain traditions causes gravity. As a result, the Empire demands conformity of its citizens, and is constantly seeking to defend its borders.Hwa Young was just ten years old when her rebel moon home fell to pieces—literally. Six years later, Hwa Young is recruited by the Empire to become a lancer (humans who pilot giant mecha robots), but when she finds out that her fleet’s next assignment is her old home, she’s terrified that some survivor from her past will recognize her and out her to her new comrades as rebel-born.Once there, Hwa Young discovers a terrible truth: the core worlds are collapsing into a cluster of black holes, and the Empire is hiding the information. Hwa Young will have to betray the Empire to save its citizens… but can she deal with the catastrophic consequences?

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 the very laws of physics-at the cost of human sacrifice. Will you... CONFRONT your leaders, at the risk of being labeled a heretic and hunted down? CHANGE the system from within, despite the chance that you'll be crushed by it instead? COLLABORATE to preserve what you can, at the cost of your principles? Assimilation is a fate worse than death. Designed by Yoon Ha Lee and based on his Hugo-nominated Machineries of Empire space opera series. Included are three starter scenarios by Marie Brennan, author of The Memoirs of Lady Trent and, with Alyc C. Helms as M. A. Carrick, the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy.

"When Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun are sent on a goodwill mission to prevent war from breaking out, they end up getting stranded on a death planet behind enemy lines"--

"To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general"--Amazon.com.

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Young tiger spirit Sebin wants nothing more than to join the Thousand World Space Forces and captain a battle cruiser. But when their acceptance letter finally arrives, it''s accompanied by the shocking news that their uncle, Captain Hwan, has been declared a traitor, having abandoned his duty, stolen the magical Dragon Pearl artifact, and gone AWOL. Sebin hopes to help clear his name and restore honour to the clan, but as soon as Sebin arrives for orientation, they are met by a special investigator, Yi, and Yi''s assistant - a young fox spirit named Min, and everything goes wrong when the cruiser is sabotaged.

"Locus Award winner Lee (Phoenix Extravagant) takes on the folktale form in a collection of 25 gorgeous, magical stories, tiny jewels of worldbuilding that tap into mythic themes to feel somehow both ancient and delightfully fresh... The result is breathtaking in its playful grace." -Publisher's Weekly Starred Review

Gyen Jebi, a jobless Hwagugin artist struggling under Razanei occupation, is recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the sigils animating Razan's automaton soldiers. But when Jebi discovers the depths of Razan's crimes-and the awful source of the magical pigments they use-they determine to steal the ministry's dragon automaton and fight...