![]() ![]() Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor ( 2022) is a fantasy for younger readers whose young protagonist searches for the meaning of Chinese history in the underworld. Iron Widow won a British Science Fiction Association Award for 2021 in the category of book for younger readers. Published last year, Zhao’s first novel Iron Widow which provides a fresh take on China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian debuted as a New York Times bestseller. The young protagonist of the tale discovers in herself a Psi Power which keeps her alive, and her airship battleworthy, but which seems deadly to males. In a long fight against Mecha bent on Invasion of the homeland Huaxia, adolescent girls are induced to pair sexually with young men (see Sex), creating in this fashion consortia capable of piloting Airships to defend their home. A first-gen Hui Chinese immigrant from small-town China to Vancouver, Canada, they were raised by the internet and made the inexplicable decision to leave their biochem degree in the dust to write books and make educational content instead. (1997- ) Chinese-born author, in Canada from about the age of ten they are of sf interest for the Iron Widow sequence beginning with the Young Adult Iron Widow ( 2021), where visual topoi from Anime enliven with deliberately garish exuberance an otherwise downbeat narrative. Xiran Jay Zhao is the 1 bestselling author of the Iron Widow duology. ![]()
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