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Book entitled: Weave the Lightning. By Corry L. Lee.

Magic storms have returned decades early, and a young woman hides a treasonous secret from the fascist state…

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Book entitled: The Storm's Betrayal. By Corry L. Lee.

The Stormhawk – Bourshkanya’s paranoid, fascist leader – is unkillable.

For the resistance to succeed, the Stormhawk must die.

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About Corry

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Corry L. Lee is a science fiction and fantasy author, Ph.D. physicist, award-winning science teacher, data geek, and parent. They identify as nonbinary, white, and pan/bisexual.

Corry’s Russian-inspired epic fantasy novel, Weave the Lightning, came out in April 2020 from Solaris Books. The sequel, The Storm’s Betrayal, released April 2021. Their science fiction short story “Shutdown” won the Writers of the Future award. 

In Ph.D. research at Harvard, Corry shed light on the universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang and won numerous teaching awards.  Later, in the tech industry, they connected science to technology, improving customer experience through online experimentation.

Meet Corry at one of their upcoming appearances, where they’ll happily enthuse about cross-country skiing, French pop music, or single origin coffee.  (Or whatever they’re currently loving.)

Corry is represented by Lisa Rodgers of JABberwocky Literary.

About

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Author.
Award-Winning Science Educator.
Ph.D. Particle Physicist.
Space enthusiast.
Data Scientist.
Obsessive coffee drinker.
Enthusiastic try-new-things-er.
Nonbinary. Pansexual.
Parent.

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The Bourshkanya Series

The Bourshkanya Series –
available from Solaris & Recorded Books.

In a Russian-inspired fascist state, a young female resistance fighter and a young man trained as a mage by the State confront each other and their prejudices. Faced with the unexpected return of magical storms, they must learn to control their magic and untangle truth from propaganda in order to save Bourshkanya from its brutal regime.

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The Lightning Gang – Photo Gallery

In the Bourshkanya Series, doing magic leaves you storm-scarred. In real life, lightning can create Lichtenberg Figures on people and objects.

Join authors, astronauts, editors and more in the lightning gang!

Lee’s debut is a dazzling – and timely – high-wire act.

Ian Tregillis, author of The Alchemy Wars

Like a Russian-accented The Night Circus… A sweeping epic of romance, revolution, elegant strangeness, and elemental magic.

Jason Heller on Weave the Lightning