About The Speaker
Yoon Ha Lee
Yoon Ha Lee's debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards; its sequels, Raven Stratagem and Revenant Gun, were also Hugo finalists. His middle grade space opera, Dragon Pearl, won the Locus Award for best YA novel and was a New York Times bestseller. Lee's short fiction has appeared in venues such as Tor.com, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.
Plugs
Lee’s fantasy novel PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT is forthcoming from Solaris Books in October 2020.
D&D Alignment
Neutral Good
Bender Class
Air
FMK: Fictional Character Edition
“Marry: Gunn from Angel the Series
Kill: Horde Prime from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (reboot)
F(…ind otherwise attractive): Emperor Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery”
Favorite Book Quote
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War