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About the product «The Nine-Tailed Fox Gambit» is the first novel by Yun Ha Lee, famous for his fantasy stories. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Debut and made it to the finals of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel. The world of the Fox is strange and remote from our time for entire epochs. The universe is ruled by Hexarchate, suppressing rebels and heretics. An officer of Hexarchate receives a dangerous task, on the fulfillment of which not only her future life depends, but also the future of their civilization. As a weapon, she wants to use a «ghost» — a record of the personality of the legendary general, who has been dead for several hundred years. But he’s deadly. Before his first death, he went mad and destroyed his army. Will not the brilliant tactician again turn into a madman called the Archtraitor? Starship Troopers with Apocalypse Now, and Colonel Kurz is in charge. A roof-top militaristic space opera, but with so many strange ideas that it looks more like Hanna Raaniemi’s work than Cordweiner’s Smith. » — Stephen Baxter «Lovely, brutal and full of the ingenuity that characterizes the best science fiction.» — Alastair Reynolds «Murderous space opera from the brightest new talent.» — Elizabeth Bier “For 16 years, Yun Ha Lee was the eminence of science fiction, developing tactics for a convincing victory. Now he spoke fully armed. Elegant as origami, fox-like cunning, fiercely new — this book will burn your brain. Axiomatically brilliant. Heretical good. » — Seth Dickinson “Wonderful, original and compulsive. As if Cordweiner Smith wrote a novel for the Warhammer 40K series. » — Gareth L. Powell Abstract Captain of the Hexarchate Cal Cheris disgraced herself with unconventional combat tactics. Command gives her one last chance to regain her honor, having recaptured the Fortress of Scattered Needles captured by the heretics. It’s not just Cheris’s career that is at stake. If the space fortress remains in the hands of the rebels, Hexarchate will fall behind. Cheris’s only hope is an alliance with the undead General Jedo, a visionary, Archtraitor and a madman. He won battles that cannot be won, and only his military genius is capable of capturing the fortress. In his first life, he went mad and completely destroyed both armies, one of which he commanded himself, but now he is only a ghost in the «black cradle». The closer the siege ends, the more questions Cheris has for the general. Is he that crazy? What is he planning? Would she be his next victim?
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