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. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.Ĭheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.Ĭaptain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. John M.The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who must recapture the formidable Fortress of Scattered Needles in order to redeem herself in front of the Hexarchate.Stephanie Butland's 'The Lost For Words Bookshop'.

That being said, I'd be just as happy with generalized people of color, not specifically people of Asian descent, in my hypothetical film.Visit Yoon Ha Lee's website. In case you haven't figured it out, my space opera is full of cockamamie Asians! Because why not. Watching Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori in Pacific Rim makes me think she'd be perfect for the role. She's dedicated and brilliant in a completely different way-she's a mathematician-and although she starts out loyal to the Evil Empire, working with Jedao makes her start to question her beliefs. The second is Jedao's unwilling protégée, Captain Kel Cheris. I've enjoyed his range in the different roles I've seen him in (I was so sad when his Gavin the evil lawyer died in Angel!) and I'd be fascinated to see how he interpreted a treacherous ghost general. The first of my two main characters is Shuos Jedao, an undead general known both for never losing a battle across four hundred years and for an infamous massacre in which he blew up two armies, one of them his own. But it costs nothing to dream, either way.

I had actually imagined the book in animation instead, like Voltron: Legendary Defender or Code Geass or Avatar: The Last Airbender. Here Lee dreamcasts an adaptation of Ninefox Gambit: While I certainly wouldn't say no if someone offered to make my book Ninefox Gambit into a film, I suspect the special effects budget would be prohibitive! One of the hazards of writing space opera, I guess.

Lee's new novel is Revenant Gun, book three in the Machineries of Empire series that begins with Ninefox Gambit. in math education from Stanford University, Yoon Ha Lee finds it a source of continual delight that math can be mined for story ideas. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. A Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A.

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