Call me "Lee" for short

I write fantasy stories. 2x Nebula nominee, TFR Reader's Choice Awardee, etc. non-binary

[p-h-lee]

A List of All My Fiction Publications in Chronological Order

2018

A House by the Sea, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction / Uncanny (Featured in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019)

2019

Compassionate Simulation (with Rachel Swirsky), Uncanny

An Arc of Lightning Across the Eye of God, Clarkesworld

One Thousand and One Time-Equivalent Units, Visions v. 2

2020

How the Emperor of All Space and Every World Awoke to the True Nature of Reality and Why It Didn’t Matter, Escape Pod

Distant Stars, Clarkesworld

Five Courses on Ganymede, Nature

The Vampire of Kovácspéter, Lightspeed

The Garden Where No One Ever Goes, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Featured in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021)

Ann-of-Rags, Lightspeed

2021

Leaving Room for the Moon, Clarkesworld

Your Own Undoing, Apex

Frost’s Boy, Lightspeed (Featured in The Year’s Best Fantasy, Volume One)

The Bear Prince, Lightspeed

Just Enough Rain, Giganotosaurus (Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette)

Taking Control of Your Life in Five Easy Steps, Nightmare

The True Value of an Artist is His Patriotism, Cossmass Infinities Issue 6 (buy)

Friendship and Other Anomalous Results, Nature

The Ash Girl and the Salmon Prince (poems by Rachel Swirsky), Lightspeed (Part One, Part Two)

Larkspur, Cossmass Infinities Year One (buy)

2022

This Story is Called “The Transformation of Things,” Xenocultivars (buy) ( Reprinted online in Zooscape )

The Honest Fox, or, A Truth Shared is Not a Truth Lost, Lightspeed

An Ill-Fated Girl Happens to Meet an Ill-Fated Man, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (buy)

The Turnip, or, How the Whole World Was Brought to Peace, Lightspeed.

Megabot vs. Teamwork, fuckit issue #11 (buy)

A True and Certain Proof of the Messianic Age, with two lemmas, Fantasy

How the Crown Prince of Jupiter Undid the Universe , or, The Full Fruit of Love’s Full Folly, tordotcom

The Tragic Fate of the City of O-Rashad, Lightspeed

Megabot vs. The Fundamental Arbitrariness of Existence, fuckit issue #12 (buy)

To my daughter, in the dark of the moon, Lightspeed

2023

How to Serve the Dead: A Confucian Alternate History, The Cosmic Background

The Greatest Home Run in Baseball History, Strange Horizons

Megabot vs. The Lingering Trauma of Parental Abandonment, fuck #15 (buy)

2024

A Sojourn in the Fifth City, Lightspeed

A Sad Song For A Young Tarantula, Sunday Morning Transport (two months free subscription)

Only Some of True Love’s Miracles, Lightspeed

Richard Nixon and the Princess of the Crows, Lightspeed

The V*mpire, Reactor (Winner of Outstanding Short Story in the Transfeminine Review Readers’ Choice Awards) (Finalist for Nebula Award for Best Short Story)

The Ones Who Come At Last, Lightspeed

note that i do not do a great job maintaining this but do a slightly better job maintaining the same list at my author site.

[mariacallous]

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[secondcenturywarlord]

My emperor told me he keeps losing his armies and their generals to the bandits of Liangshan marsh. I asked what he does about that and he said he just asks the court to recommend some new men of valor to order to suppress the rebels. I said it sounds like he's doing the bandits' recruitment for them and his prime minister sentenced me to the nine familial exterminations.

[annleckie]

Recipe for a Traveler

Now, if you've never been to the city of Ooiooaa on the rogue planet of Aaa, what can I tell you? How can I convey the taste of the food there?

I can't. It's far too long a trip for native foods--the worms, the ever-popular peas (not peas at all but some sort of creature that colonizes the sea floor)...the very flavor of the water there is indescribably different, how can I convey that, let alone the taste of every Ooiooiaan's comfort food, peas and pucks?

And if I spend too much time thinking of it, I develop an irresistible craving for a nice warm bowl of peas and a soft, dense puck or two. What to do then? If I set out now it would still be months, if not years, before I set foot in that holy city.

There's nothing for it but to throw something together that at least approaches the food I'm missing. So!

My Recipe for Ooiooiaan Peas & Pucks

Well, already we're in for an argument. "Everyone" knows that peas and pucks is served with skel and a garnish of pickled onions. Except everyone doesn't know that--I met people in Ooiooiaa who were convinced that no real Ooiooiaan puts skel--the basic food of the much-hated Radchaai--on a good Ooiooiaan food like peas and pucks. And even the onions--I can't even describe to you how prevalent onions are in that city, how they are on the table at every meal, and nine times out of ten are in your drink. (I never did get used to hot onion water, but it's absolutely everywhere. Sit down in a restaurant and you'll be served a pot of hot onion water whether you want it or not.) But I was told several times that peas and pucks was never served with onions "in the old days."

I am not here to make any sort of declarations about the authenticity of one recipe or another. I am only trying to make a version of what I got from the food carts outside the Temporal Location of the Radiant Star. So, there will be skel--or "skel" --and onions.

You will need:

1 cup of water 1 teaspoon dashi powder 1 teaspoon miso As many fish balls as you're hungry for/fit in the pan 1 to 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1 tsp wakame pickled onions 1 package refrigerator biscuits

First, put the wakame in a bowl of water to reconstitute. Bake the biscuits according to package directions.

Combine water and dashi powder, bring to a boil. Add the fish balls. Boil for about five minutes (or longer if they're still frozen). Add the teaspoon of miso and stir till it's dissolved.

Add just enough water to the cornstarch to make a slurry. Pour this into the simmering broth and stir constantly until thickened. Use more or less cornstarch depending on how thick you like it.

Drain the excess water from the wakame, add as much as you like to the pan, stir, and remove from heat. Serve over a biscuit, garnish with pickled onions.

Does it taste exactly like the peas and pucks of Ooiooiaa? It does not. But it's as close as we're going to get, from here.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Errol Le Cain - illustration of ‘Thorn Rose’, a version of Sleeping Beauty.

[annleckie]

So, here's a sneak preview of Radiant Star! The diorama this year was too big for me to get a good view in one shot, so I've taken a few.

No peeps were harmed in the making of this diorama, but afterward a bunch got sat on by Shadow, and a lot of them were eaten.

[annleckie]

one

week

wherever fine books are sold

[p-h-lee]

radiant star is an excellent book and you should buy it.

[wizardsvslesbians]

Wizards Vs. Lesbians: BONUS: WHAT WE ARE SEEKING

Anthropological SF in the mold of Cherryh or Le Guin, updated for our era and its preoccupations - funny, surprising, and smart.  We ha

We dabble with relevance once again by reviewing a book that just came out! And what a book. We had a delightful time talking about Cameron Reed's re-debut, which feels simultaneously classic and contemporary, and is full of literal and metaphorical treats.

Our guest Louis Evans has a new story out! Equipped with two sandwiches, a couple sets out to the zoo to see the one totally sane human being.

[brevarden]

Radchaai voice of course you have bare hands and pronouns

[jmfenner91]

[samueldelany]

Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana author of Womb City and The Silence of the Wilting Skin. Her second novel, House of Margins, is forthcoming in Spring 2026, as well as her debut YA fantasy, The Bloodwinds, in 2027. Tlotlo's short fiction has appeared in Africa Risen, The Best of World SF Volume 1, Clarkesworld, Terraform, Africanfuturism Anthology, Chiral Mad 5, and other publications.

You can find her on Instagram and Twitter at @tlotlotsamaase.

[dateamonster]

you could never make me hate magitech/scifantasy settings. fantasy and scifi are two beuatiful women to me and they are kissing with tongue.

[annleckie]

A package came today!

It's about a month until Radiant Star is out officially, so that means....a box of finished copies turned up on my porch today!!! Hooray!!!!

[wizardsvslesbians]

Wizards Vs. Lesbians: THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD

This is that good, chunky, deeply strange fairy tale stuff. You don't have to settle for Gaiman - you never did, honestly. Plus it's Italian

Despite the fact that our main characters is probably just aro/ace, this is extremely wizards vs lesbians - it's about the deals you need to make to be a girl who is a wizard, and whether the revolution is everything it's cracked up to be. And it's really good!

Late update due to me forgetting that last week's episode was a bonus until about ten minutes ago. Apologies!

[prokopetz]

There are two unrelated metroidvanias based on the classic Little Nemo comics coming out this year, which feels like kind of an obvious cut – of course you'd adapt Little Nemo as a metroidvania, if you were going to adapt it as anything – but it got me thinking: what would be the least suitable public domain media to give the metroidvania treatment?

[p-h-lee]

the actually least suitable is Wuthering Heights.

however, contemplating this question has led me to the concept of a In Search of Lost Time Metroidvania. which i find, at some fundamental level, both wrong and compelling.

[citadelofthestars]

so.....is there anything with which the lion does concern himself ?

[naomisramblings]

the four children who wandered into His world through the back of a wardrobe

[prokopetz]

I've joked in the past about how I want an Arthurian adaptation set in one of those bits of the Middle Ages where nobody has any working infrastructure and all the kings and lords are flat broke but they're still trying to make it work, but it occurs to me that a high fantasy version of that would also be kind of awesome. The High King in his grand palace (shitty hill fort) sending his Holy Knights (a dozen guys and a donkey) on a perilous journey (a half-day's march) to face the Dread Necromancer's undead scourge (exactly six zombies). The Necromancer's immortal death-knight champion (a skeleton in a hat) comes out to meet them astride a terrible hornèd beast (a reanimated cow because they couldn't find a dead horse).