Matthew James Lee: 18 books

In the middle of winter, just before Christmas, a bounty hunter and his adopted daughter receive an unexpected guest at their cabin in the wilderness. All three of them learn something about themselves in the process.

Luca, a master blacksmith's daughter, is almost as talented with making and wielding swords as her father - but she's tired of other girls making fun of her because she doesn't behave the way a young lady ought to. She decides to use her talents to win herself fame and fortune and show up her detractors - but what she really wants may not be what she thinks.

Interstellar war breaks out around a corporate space station, and a UAV technician looks at how his colleague's faith helps her cope.

When an army crosses the border to strike at the city where Maggie lives, all seems lost: the invaders have a powerful magic-user, the Lady of Autumn, on their side. The young orphan gathers her courage and sets out into the wilds, to find the army before it arrives - but her confrontation with the Lady is not quite what Maggie expected.

A reclusive author meets a young adventurer who's used the author's most notorious book as the inspiration for a desperate attempt to rescue his long-lost sister. The author knows the adventurer's reading all sorts of things into the book he never intended, in order to justify pursuing...

In an ancient city left in ruins after a lengthy civil war, two men are looking for hidden secrets that might help them get their hearts' desires. But the secret they discover is a very powerful one, and the person they choose to hand it over to is a greedy, ambitious warlord whose plans could...

In the ancient kingdom of Tian Xia, princess Silvermoon is getting married - but then a stranger barges in to the ceremony while the young woman is still choosing a groom. First Silvermoon is accused of being a thief, and then she's threatened with terrible danger. Who is the mysterious Tsung...

A nameless traveler on a mission of revenge arrives at an ancient city under siege. The role he decides to take on in order to help him carry out that mission - saving a young girl orphaned by the conflict - turns out to have a personal significance that affects him in ways he wasn't expecting....

In a peaceful medieval kingdom, recently conquered by an invading tyrant, a young soldier decides to start a resistance movement. He's certain he knows the perfect figurehead - a hero of the abortive war against the despot - but convincing this man to join their struggle turns out to be nowhere near as straightforward as he expects.

A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives, other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we? Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand and learn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth the effort to take on these points...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary...

Inspired by the outcasts, outlaws, and other outré inhabitants of rock legend Lou Reed’s songbook, Dirty Boulevard traffics in crime fiction that’s sometimes velvety and sometimes vicious, but always, absolutely, rock & roll. Inside, you’ll find stories from the fire escapes to the underground,...

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sandborn Smith, Michael Swanwick, and Harry Turtedove. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.