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Jay Lake
Jay Lake was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an award-winning editor, a popular raconteur and toastmaster, and an excellent teacher at the many writers...view moreJay Lake was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an award-winning editor, a popular raconteur and toastmaster, and an excellent teacher at the many writers' workshops he attended. His novels included Tor's publications Mainspring, Escapement, and Pinion, and the trilogy of novels in his Green cycle - Green, Endurance, and Kalimpura. Lake was nominated multiple times for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2004, the year after his first professional stories were published. In 2008 Jay Lake was diagnosed with colon cancer, and in the years after he became known outside the sf genre as a powerful and brutally honest blogger about the progression of his disease. Jay Lake died on June 1, 2014.view less
Books by Jay Lake
Mainspring Pinion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Lady of the Islands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Scent of Rotting Roses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlmost All the Way Home From the Stars: Science Fiction Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRocket Science Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath of a Starship Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5