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Yoon Ha Lee


Born
in Houston, Texas, The United States
January 26, 1979

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Yoon Ha Lee is an American science fiction writer born on January 26, 1979 in Houston, Texas. His first published story, “The Hundredth Question,” appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1999; since then, over two dozen further stories have appeared. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Cutting Corners

Forthcoming at Reactor: A team of pilots is trained to fly ships in a war where it’s become cheaper to send humans instead of machines.

The funny story behind this one is that I originally wrote this when I was literally a teenager (during undergrad, at nineteen). It bounced from a couple zines and I shelved it…then lost the file for over a decade. I could have rewritten it except I couldn’t rememb

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Quotes by Yoon Ha Lee  (?)
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“The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“All communication is manipulation,” Jedao said. “You’re a mathematician. You should know that from information theory.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.”
Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

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April Science Fiction -- The following poll decides which two selections will go on to the final round for Science Fiction BOTM of April 2017.

 
  23 votes, 26.7%

 
  20 votes, 23.3%

 
  18 votes, 20.9%

 
  14 votes, 16.3%

 
  8 votes, 9.3%

 
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