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Ninefox Gambit
by Yoon Ha Lee
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Pub Date
14 Jun 2016
| Archive Date
24 Jun 2016
Description
New York Times Best-Selling Author – Nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series – Winner of the 2016 Locus Award – Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards
When Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Kel Command gives her a chance to redeem herself, by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles from the heretics. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake: if the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.
Cheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress. The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own.
As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao – because she might be his next victim.
New York Times Best-Selling Author – Nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series – Winner of the 2016 Locus Award – Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke AwardsWhen Captain Kel...
Description
New York Times Best-Selling Author – Nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series – Winner of the 2016 Locus Award – Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards
When Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Kel Command gives her a chance to redeem herself, by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles from the heretics. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake: if the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.
Cheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress. The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own.
As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao – because she might be his next victim.
Advance Praise
“Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand
inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an
effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular
fashion.” Alastair Reynolds
"A dizzying composite of military space opera and sheer poetry. Every
word, name and concept in Lee's unique world is imbued with a sense of
wonder." Hannu Rajaniemi
“I love Yoon's work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and
satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built
far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time. It should be a
treat for readers already familiar with Yoon's excellent short fiction, and an
extra treat for readers finding Yoon's work for the first time.” Ann Leckie
“StarshipTroopers meets Apocalypse Now – and
they’ve put Kurtz in charge...Mind-blistering military space opera, but with a
density of ideas and strangeness that recalls the works of Hannu Rajaniemi,
even Cordwainer Smith. An unmissable debut.” Stephen Baxter
"Astriking space opera by a bright new talent." Elizabeth Bear
“For sixteen years Yoon Ha Lee has been the shadow general of science fiction,
the calculating tactician behind victory after victory. Now he launches his
great manoeuvre. Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new,
this book will burn your brain. Axiomatically brilliant. Heretically good.”
Seth Dickinson
"A high-octane ride through an endlessly inventive world, where calendars
are weapons of war and dead soldiers can assist the living. Bold, fearlessly innovative
and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards
list." Aliette de Bodard
“Daring, original and compulsive. As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer
novel.” Gareth L. Powell
“Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand
inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion.”...
Advance Praise
“Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand
inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an
effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular
fashion.” Alastair Reynolds
"A dizzying composite of military space opera and sheer poetry. Every
word, name and concept in Lee's unique world is imbued with a sense of
wonder." Hannu Rajaniemi
“I love Yoon's work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and
satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built
far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time. It should be a
treat for readers already familiar with Yoon's excellent short fiction, and an
extra treat for readers finding Yoon's work for the first time.” Ann Leckie
“StarshipTroopers meets Apocalypse Now – and
they’ve put Kurtz in charge...Mind-blistering military space opera, but with a
density of ideas and strangeness that recalls the works of Hannu Rajaniemi,
even Cordwainer Smith. An unmissable debut.” Stephen Baxter
"Astriking space opera by a bright new talent." Elizabeth Bear
“For sixteen years Yoon Ha Lee has been the shadow general of science fiction,
the calculating tactician behind victory after victory. Now he launches his
great manoeuvre. Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new,
this book will burn your brain. Axiomatically brilliant. Heretically good.”
Seth Dickinson
"A high-octane ride through an endlessly inventive world, where calendars
are weapons of war and dead soldiers can assist the living. Bold, fearlessly innovative
and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards
list." Aliette de Bodard
“Daring, original and compulsive. As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer
novel.” Gareth L. Powell
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| ISBN |
9781781084496 |
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781781084496 |
| PRICE |
CA$19.99 (CAD)
|
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