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Fonda Lee

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Fonda Lee is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of the epic Green Bone Saga, beginning with Jade City and continuing in Jade War and Jade Legacy. Her most recent work is the fantasy novella, Untethered Sky. She is also the author of the acclaimed science fiction novels Zeroboxer, Exo and Cross Fire.

Fonda is a winner of the Locus Award, a six-time winner of the Aurora Award (Canada’s national science fiction and fantasy award), and a multiple finalist for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. Her novels have garnered multiple starred reviews, been included on numerous state reading lists, named Junior Library Guild selections, and appeared on Best of Year lists from NPR, Barnes & Noble, Syfy Wire, and others. Jade City was named among the ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 240,418 ratings · 41,620 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 109,278 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2) 4.38 avg rating — 55,703 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3) 4.62 avg rating — 44,779 ratings — published 2021 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untethered Sky 3.88 avg rating — 11,713 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jade Setter of Janloon (The Green Bone Saga, #0.5) 4.28 avg rating — 4,985 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jade Shards (The Green Bone Saga, #0.75) 4.29 avg rating — 3,465 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exo (Exo #1) 3.78 avg rating — 2,568 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zeroboxer 3.68 avg rating — 1,633 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross Fire (Exo, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 854 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Green Bone Saga 4.66 avg rating — 308 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Release Date and Cover Reveal for The Last Contract of Isako

Thomas Walker did such a good job with the reissued Green Bone Saga covers that Orbit’s art director Lauren Panepinto tapped him again to create the cover for The Last Contract of Isako. I love Tommy’s style, and I think he knocked it out of the park yet again. Thank you to Goodreads for hosting today’s official cover reveal.

The Last Contract of Isako will be releasing from Orbit Books on May 5, 2

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The Green Bone Saga (3 books)
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4.27 avg rating — 218,253 ratings

Exo (2 books)
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3.85 avg rating — 3,424 ratings

Dedicated readers of science fiction and fantasy already know this cosmic truism: It’s the genre that keeps on giving. Just when you think...

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Fonda Lee wrote a new blog post Breath of the Dragon on 2025 Best YA Fiction Lists Thank you to the New York Public Library for naming Breath of the Dragon one of the Best Books for Teens in 2025 and the Chicago Public Library for na Read more of this blog post »
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“Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

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“The Horn placed his hands on her shoulders, and pulled her close, and laid his cheek against hers. "Heaven help me, Shae," he whispered into her ear. "I'm going to kill them all.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

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“Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

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2nd Quarter 2023 - Fantasy #2

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty - 496 pp

4 votes, 26.7%

And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 208 pp

3 votes, 20.0%

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee - 160 pp

2 votes, 13.3%

The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn - 358 pp

2 votes, 13.3%

The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. Anderson - 410 pp

2 votes, 13.3%

VenCo by Cherie Dimaline - 400 pp

2 votes, 13.3%

The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland - 480 pp

0 votes, 0.0%

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