''Machineries of Empire'' is a trilogy of

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novels by American writer

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and published by

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. It consists of ''Ninefox Gambit'' (2016), ''Raven Stratagem'' (2017) and ''Revenant Gun'' (2018). The trilogy follows the young infantry captain Kel Cheris and the traitorous general Shuos Jedao in a war among factions of a despotic interstellar empire, the Hexarchate, whose esoteric technology is based on the population's adherence to the imperial calendar. The novels cover "space opera, fantasy, Korean folklore and mathematics" themes.Abigail Nussbaum, ''Worlds in the making'', New Scientist, Volume 235, Issue 3138, 2017, Page 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(17)31573-7. Several of Lee's short stories are prequels to the trilogy.

Novels

#''Ninefox Gambit'',

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Reception

''Ninefox Gambit'' received the 2017

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, and was nominated for the 2016

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and 2017

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Awards for Best Novel, and the 2017

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award. ''Raven Stratagem'' was nominated for the 2018

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. ''Revenant Gun'' was nominated for the 2019

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