She is accompanied by the uncorporeal Shuos Jedao, a brutal tactical genius who went mad and massacred two armies – the enemy and his own – a crime for which his body was executed while his spirit was kept alive in the ‘black cradle’, making him an immortal prisoner. Captain Kel Cheris is chosen to lead an assault on the Fortress of Scattered Needles which has fallen to heretics.
Ninefox Gambit, the first in Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire trilogy, grew out of his short story “The Battle of Candle Arc” (published in Clarkesworld October 2012) and is a military space opera on the kind of canvas fans of Iain M Banks will appreciate.
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