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?

About The Author

Yoon Ha Lee

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 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 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). Yoon’s hobbies include game design, art, and destroying the reader. He lives in Louisiana with his family, a 5-string viola, and a lazy catten, and has not yet been eaten by alto clefs.

Product Details

Publisher: Solaris (August 11, 2026)
Length: 384 pages
ISBN13: 9781837868018

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Raves and Reviews

“Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion.” —Alastair Reynolds?

“I love Yoon’s work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time. It should be a treat for readers already familiar with Yoon’s excellent short fiction, and an extra treat for readers finding Yoon’s work for the first time.” —Ann Leckie

“Starship Troopers meets Apocalypse Now – and they’ve put Kurtz in charge... Mind-blistering military space opera, but with a density of ideas and strangeness that recalls the works of Hannu Rajaniemi, even Cordwainer Smith. An unmissable debut.” —Stephen Baxter

“A striking space opera by a bright new talent.” —Elizabeth Bear

“For sixteen years Yoon Ha Lee has been the shadow general of science fiction, the calculating tactician behind victory after victory. Now he launches his great manoeuvre. Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new, this book will burn your brain. Axiomatically brilliant. Heretically good.” —Seth Dickinson

“A high-octane ride through an endlessly inventive world, where calendars are weapons of war and dead soldiers can assist the living. Bold, fearlessly innovative and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards list.” —Aliette de Bodard

“Daring, original and compulsive. As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer novel.” —Gareth L. Powell

“Breathtakingly original” —The New York Times

“Beautiful, vast and rooted in the real” —NPR

“Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire is the kind of trilogy you love to discover — one filled with space battles, political intrigue, and technology so advanced it feels magical.” —SYFY

“With intergalactic battles and political schemes, Ninefox Gambit is set in an inventive world governed by calendrical systems.” —The Portalist