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Jaymee Goh
Jaymee Goh writes alternate histories and different worlds filled with social justice cotton candy.
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Jaymee Goh is a writer, reviewer, editor, and essayist of science fiction and fantasy. Her work has been published in a number of science fiction and fantasy magazines and anthologies. She wrote the blog Silver Goggles, an exploration of postcolonial theory through steampunk, and has contributed to Tor.com, Racialicious.com, and Beyond Victoriana. She graduated from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in 2016, and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside, where she dissertated on steampunk and whiteness. She is an editor for Tachyon Publications.
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Four Generations of Feathers
Published Jun 19, 2021 · 498 words (2 minutes) · 143 views
A brief contemplation on evolution, dinosaurs, and the pain of changing generations. (Also with the assumption that dinosaurs did not have feathers.)
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A Better Man
Published Sep 9, 2020 · 642 words (3 minutes) · 571 views
The Bachelor + man apocalypse
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Top 5 Hunting Grounds This Summer Season!
Published Jun 14, 2020 · 472 words (2 minutes) · 2 likes · 996 views
Fantasy Humor sea monster ocean sea mermaids
A listicle for maneating mermaids. Idea proposed by Stephani Soejono.
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The Doll in the Museum
Published May 4, 2020 · 607 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 797 views
Fantasy Science Fiction bad dates misandry!
A mysterious doll and a shitty museum date.
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Lunar Year's End
Published Jan 15, 2020 · 4,185 words (16 minutes) · 927 views
Science Fiction food steampunk found family cooking lunar new year peranakan
Nyonya trader Yap Siew Fei is on another voyage, but her indomitable maid Ching Seow Fen won't let her forget about New Year.
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A Name to Ashes
Published Nov 3, 2019 · 6,476 words (24 minutes) · 5 likes · 1863 views
Fantasy Historical sugar plantations ghosts historical racism coolie trade Cuba Cuba Commission Report Cantonese
Lim Jia is the youngest clerk on an expedition to Cuba to investigate the indentured laborer trade. But he has a secret motive: to discover the fate of his long-missing older brother... which might require speaking with a ghost or two.
Jaymee Goh is a Clarion graduate with a PhD in comparative literature, and has contributed to Tor.com, Racialicious.com, Beyond Victoriana, and more. She lives in Berkeley, California, where she also works as an editor at Tachyon Publications.Free
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Between Islands
Published Jun 15, 2019 · 6,234 words (23 minutes) · 769 views
Science Fiction malaysia steampunk alternate history
Merchants and colonisers. Balloon boys. Technology brought home to the Straits of Melaka to turn the tides of history.
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In the Heart of Yellow Mountain
Published Apr 21, 2019 · 7,800 words (29 minutes) · 1094 views
Romance Fantasy Humor Science Fiction steampunk queer puzzle labyrinth
Jin Fan, an aspiring courtier, travels to Yellow Mountain to bring back a sprig of emerald bamboo from a legendary labyrinth, to find spoiled childhood playmate/mistress Xiao Ling vying for the same. Now she has to traverse the labyrinth, without somehow throttling Xiao Ling, or getting killed by a mysterious brigand taking out the other hopefuls.
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The Tin Spirit
Published Mar 9, 2019 · 4,982 words (19 minutes) · 7 likes · 1746 views
Fantasy Historical steampunk historical fantasy Malay whodunnit
Tok Kadir and his apprentice Saifan travel to a remote factory to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. Rumors swirl about the coincidental arrival of a beautiful young woman named Maria just before the deaths began, but Tok Kadir suspects all is not as it seems. Author Jaymee Goh writes alternative histories and analyzes postcolonialism through the lens of steampunk. Her work has appeared on Tor.com, and she's a graduate of both UC Riverside‘s Comparative Literature PhD program and the Clarion Writers‘ Workshop. A Malaysian citizen living in Berkeley, Jaymee is now an editor at Tachyon Publications.
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