Author: Yoon Ha Lee

Stunning Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Classic Military Space Opera

The tenth anniversary edition of the Locus Award Winning classic. Featuring a new introduction by Ann Leckie.

When Captain Kel Cheris is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Command gives her a chance to redeem herself, by retaking the imposing Fortress of Scattered Needles from the heretics rebelling against the hexarchate. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake: if the fortress falls, the whole empire is at risk.

Her best hope is to play host to the imprisoned soul of the gifted tactician Shuos Jedao, who has never lost a battle. But it's a terrible risk: in life, Jedao went mad and massacred two armies, one of them his own.

As the siege wears on and the secrets of the hexarchate come to light, Cheris must decide how far she can trust the ghostly Jedao - is he leading her to the truth, or will she be his next victim?

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 08/11/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.03oz
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781837868018

About the Author
Yoon Ha Lee is a Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. in math education from Stanford University, and is pursuing an MFA in media composition and orchestration at ThinkSpace Education. His young adult mecha novel Moonstorm won the Locus Award for Best YA Novel, is currently a finalist for the Ignyte Award (YA), and was a finalist for the Nebula Award (YA).

Yoon's novel Ninefox Gambit won the Locus Award for best first novel, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, and Clarke awards. His middle grade space opera Dragon Pearl from Rick Riordan Presents won the Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature and the Locus Award for best YA novel, and was a New York Times bestseller.

Yoon's short fiction has appeared in venues such as Reactor (formerly Tor.com), Audubon Magazine, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's anthology Take Us to a Better Place. His TTRPG Ninefox Gambit RPG, co-authored with Marie Brennan, was a Nebula finalist in game writing.

He has written comic scripts for Marvel (Doom's Division #1-5 and "Epée Is Truth" in The X-Men: The Wedding Special #1) as well as game writing (Counterplay Games' Godfall, Failbetter Games' Winterstrike, Alderac Entertainment Group's *Legend of the Five Rings *CCG).

Yoon's hobbies include game design, art, and destroying the reader. He lives in Louisiana with his family and pets (5-string viola, morin khuur, spinning wheel... catten) and has not yet been eaten by alto clefs.