Learn more about Yoon Ha Lee's epic sci-fi adventure, on sale January 15, 2019. She decides to run away to find him and clear his name.

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I know that I’m overly fond of semicolons and long sentences, and it was good to focus on making my prose more comprehensible. Sondheimer: You have a book of flash fairy tales out that were first published on your website. The imprint’s third book, Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl is a bit of a departure. His first published story, “The Hundredth Question,” appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1999; since then, over two dozen further stories have appeared. SWS: In a lot of fairy tales, only extraordinary people can interface with the supernatural. --, The Fire Keeper (Storm Runner #2, Rick Riordan Presents) (Storm Runner Novel), Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Sal and Gabi Novel). To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. SWS: Why do you think there are myths people come back to time and again, stories that catch the attention of generations? […], […] out our conversations with imprint authors J.C. Cervantes, Yoon Ha Lee, and Rebecca Roanhorse. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. Myths deal with the common themes that we see in our own lives, only writ large – birth and death, love and friendship, revenge and mercy.

I’ve loved space adventures since I discovered Douglas Hill’s Last Legionary books and Margaret Weis’s Star of the Guardians books in high school, so I wanted to write something with that flavor.

Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1) (Pandava Series (1)), The Fire Keeper (A Storm Runner Novel, Book 2), Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (Rick Riordan Presents), Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong, 1), *"Lee has created an adrenaline-filled space opera with mythological creatures living alongside humans. YHL: Myths are how we teach one another what’s important in life – not necessarily in a literal sense (I have never met a fox spirit that I’m aware of) but in the language of metaphor and symbol. She’d probably enjoy Percy and Annabeth’s company but have trouble getting along with Apollo. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. But I also thought it would be interesting to see what mythological creatures would be doing in a future setting. How did her personality and dialogue style solidify for you? I also read parts of Hong-Key Yoon’s The Culture of Fengshui in Korea as inspiration for my mystical star ships and Religions of Korea in Practice, a collection of essays edited by Robert E. Buswell Jr., for background on the smallpox spirits. While I wrote Dragon Pearl as a standalone, I won’t rule out the possibility of more if there’s a demand. Do you remember when you first become interested in fairy tales and myths? ", Rick Riordan Presents; Reprint Edition (January 7, 2020). YHL: When my agent let me know of RRP‘s call for submissions, I came up with a synopsis describing the overall trajectory of the book and wrote the first three chapters as a sample. […] In addition to The Storm Runner, the imprint also explores Hindu myths (with Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah and the End of Time and its sequel), Korean mythology (with Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl), and a Cuban-tinged sci-fi adventure (with Carlos Hernandez’s Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, due out in March).

Did you read or reread anything in particular in preparation for writing Dragon Pearl? One theme that amuses me in Korean folklore is that of desperate but clever peasants outsmarting powerful but dim-witted tigers (who sometimes shapeshift). The outcome may not be what she had hoped, but it has the potential to exceed her wildest dreams. SWS: Your most well-known novels, the three Machineries of Empire books, are intended for an adult audience. Something went wrong. But you'd never know it by looking at her.

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