Code and Codex

By Yoon Ha Lee
Published by Solaris
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

In the stars-spanning Censorate, all languages other than lingua rubra are forbidden. The Censorate’s ruling Peacock, Aurelia, wields the universal language to manipulate reality itself and to command the obedience of all who hear and understand her.

Valentina was sold as a child to Aurelia to serve as her sworn companion, the Swan, responsible for extracting useful knowledge from foreign texts before destroying their languages wholesale. Until she delivers a book of forbidden verse to the Peacock, which proves to be the key to enslaving the Basilisk, a traitor imprisoned for a thousand years, whose gaze is so powerful that he once destroyed the Censorate’s entire fleet…

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.

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  • Publisher: Solaris (February 25, 2027)
  • Length: 384 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781837867516

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“Brain-meltingly wonderful, screamingly creative, and impossible to describe. The reading experience is art, is symphony, is opera. The linguistic and mathematical intricacy blows out every safety of the mind, with layers of such cleverness and humor that one wonders if Yoon Ha Lee is secretly a god. This book breaks the definition of imagination.” —SL Huang

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