Mathematically gifted but prone to moments of self-doubt, an ambitious Captain by the name of Kel Cheris uses a series of heretical tactics to slaughter a group of political dissidents whose political agenda is conspicuously absent from discussion. The novel opens with the brutal repression of a political uprising. Set in the same universe as many of the shorter works that Lee has produced since first entering the field in 1999, his first novel speaks to what science fiction must become whilst paying excessive lip-service to what some would have it remain. It is hard to think of a work that does a better job of articulating the artistic tensions at work within contemporary literary science fiction than Yoon Ha Lee’s Ninefox Gambit.
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