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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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Published Sep 9, 2020 · 642 words (3 minutes) · 351 views
The Bachelor + man apocalypse
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Published Jun 14, 2020 · 472 words (2 minutes) · 2 likes · 765 views
Fantasy Humor mermaids sea monster ocean sea
A listicle for maneating mermaids. Idea proposed by Stephani Soejono.
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Published May 4, 2020 · 607 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 631 views
Fantasy Science Fiction bad dates misandry!
A mysterious doll and a shitty museum date.
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Published Jan 15, 2020 · 4,185 words (16 minutes) · 750 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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Published Nov 3, 2019 · 6,476 words (24 minutes) · 5 likes · 1632 views
Fantasy Historical Cantonese sugar plantations ghosts historical racism coolie trade Cuba Cuba Commission Report
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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Published Jun 15, 2019 · 6,234 words (23 minutes) · 607 views
Science Fiction steampunk alternate history malaysia
Merchants and colonisers. Balloon boys. Technology brought home to the Straits of Melaka to turn the tides of history.
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Published Apr 21, 2019 · 7,800 words (29 minutes) · 899 views
Fantasy Humor Science Fiction Romance 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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Published Mar 9, 2019 · 4,982 words (19 minutes) · 7 likes · 1445 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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