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Exclusive Interview: “Phoenix Extravagant” Author Yoon Ha Lee

 

When asked the inevitable “where did you get the idea for this story” question, writers will often cite something that happened in their real lives. And while that’s what writer Yoon Ha Lee did in the following email interview about his silkpunk historical fantasy novel Phoenix Extravagant (which is now available in paperback a year after being released in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook), the real life something he cited was a paint. Not a painting, not his cat getting into his paints, but an actual paint.

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Exclusive Interview: Raven Stratagem Author Yoon Ha Lee

In science fiction, the big thing the last few years is for books not to be stand-alone novels, but the first in a series. But while most sci-fi writers conceive of their tales with this in mind, in talking to writer Yoon Ha Lee about Raven Stratagem (paperback, digital) — the second novel in his Machineries Of Empire trilogy — he revealed that his plans for this series were quite accidental.