Escape Pod, Robot Dinosaurs, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She is a member of the DC/MD-based Homespun Ceilidh Band, emcees the Charm City Spec reading series, and once won a major event filmmaking award for taping a Klingon wedding.
Osborne lives in Baltimore, MD, with two violins, an autoharp, five cameras, two cats and a family.
At the Tor/Forge Blog she tagged five favorite science fiction humans turned weapons, including:
General Shuos Jedao — Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha LeeRead about another entry on the list.
What immortal dictator doesn’t want a tractable pocket tactician? The leaders of the spacebound hexarchate have one in the form of Shuos Jedao, one of the most gifted military minds of his generation. There’s just one problem: he’s insane.
During his life, Jedao never lost a battle—until he turned heretical traitor and burned an entire fleet under his command. Jedao’s disembodied mind was stored awayuntil the hexarchate needed a win, then forced to win battles for the hexarchate as punishment.
In his revenant form, he isn’t allowed to sleep, nor does he have control of the body into which he’s installed. This time, that body belongs to Kel Cheris, a math genius and dedicated soldier skating on the edge of heresy herself. He’s nothing more than an intelligent weapon meant to help Cheris win the next big fight.
But there’s a problem with hosting a pocket tactician who’s smarter than you. If the hexarchate can’t see what that is, not even immortality will be able to help them.
Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire series is among Ada Hoffmann's five best science fiction books by autistic authors, Jenn Lyons's five villains who see themselves as heroes, Jeff Somers's fifty greatest debut sci-fi and fantasy novels ever written, and T.W. O'Brien's five recent books that explore the secret lives of robots.
My Book, The Movie: Ninefox Gambit.
--Marshal Zeringue
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