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Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American
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and
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writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lived in
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, and worked as a product manager for a voice services company. Lake's writings appeared in numerous publications, including '' Postscripts'', ''
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'', '' Interzone'', ''
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'', '' Asimov's Science Fiction'', '' Nemonymous'', and the '' Mammoth Book of Best New Horror''. He was an editor for the "Polyphony" anthology series from Wheatland Press, and was also a contributor to '' The Internet Review of Science Fiction''.


Personal life

Lake was born in Taipei,
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; he was the eldest of three children born to Joseph Edward Lake (a U.S. foreign service officer serving in Taiwan at the time). As a child he lived in
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; Dahomey (now called
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); Canada; Washington, D.C.; and returned to Taiwan for a number of years when his father was posted there a second time. He attended high school at
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(in Connecticut) and later graduated from the
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in 1986. Lake publicly revealed his advanced case of
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. He was diagnosed in April 2008, and it then "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses." He used
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through
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to pay for
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, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path." Lake died of the illness on June 1, 2014, just five days before his 50th birthday. Lake is the subject of a documentary called ''Lakeside – A Year With Jay Lake'' by Waterloo Productions. The film, which follows Lake's fight against cancer, had a special work-in-progress screening August 30, 2013, at the World Science Fiction Convention in
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. , it is in post-production and is scheduled to premier at Sasquan in Spokane Washington during the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention on 21, 2015. His posthumously published collection ''Last Plane to Heaven'' was honored with the 2015
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.


Bibliography


The City Imperishable

* '' Trial of Flowers'' (2006) Night Shade Books () * '' Madness of Flowers'' (2009) Night Shade Books () * '' Reign of Flowers'' (unpublished) In addition to these three novels there are at least two more stories set in the City Imperishable: * "The Soul Bottles" from the anthology ''Leviathan 4: Cities'' (ed. by Forrest Aguirre, Night Shade Books, Nov. 2004) is the first published story of The City Imperishable. * "Promises: A Tale of the City Imperishable" (2008) in '' Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy'' (ed. Ekaterina Sedia)


''Mainspring'' universe

* '' Mainspring'' (June 2007)
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() * ''
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'' (June 2008)
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() * '' Pinion'' (March 2010)
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In addition to these three novels there are at least two more novellas set in the Mainspring Universe: *
Chain of Fools
(Subterranean, Oct 2008) and *
Chain of Stars
(Subterranean, Oct 2009), loose sequel to "Chain of Fools"


''Green'' universe

* ''Green'' (June 2009)
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* ''Endurance'' (November 2011) * ''Kalimpura'' (January 2013) In addition to these three novels there are at least two more stories set in the world of ''Green'': *
A Water Matter
(Tor.com, 2008) * "The Passion of Mother Vajpai" (with Shannon Page) in ''Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2'' (ed. by William Schafer, 2011)


''Sunspin Universe''

* ''Calamity of So Long a Life'' (unpublished) * ''Their Currents Turn Awry'' (unpublished) * ''The Whips and Scorns of Time'' (unpublished) * ''All Our Sins Remembered'' (unpublished) * "To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Ourselves" ('' The New Space Opera 2'', 2009, Harper Voyager) *
Torquing Vacuum
(''Clarkesworld Magazine'', Feb 2010) *

(Is Anybody Out There?, June 2010, DAW Books) * "To This Their Late Escape" (The Sky That Wraps, 2010, ''
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'') *
A Long Walk Home
(''
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'', Winter 2011) *
The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future
(Spring 2012, ''
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'')


Other novels

* '' Rocket Science'' (2005) Fairwood Press () * ''Death of a Starship'' (2009) MonkeyBrain Books (Sunspin Universe) * ''The Specific Gravity of Grief'' (novella) (2010) Fairwood Press * ''The Baby Killers'' (novella) (2010) PS Publishing * '' Original Destiny, Manifest Sin'' (forthcoming)


Collections

* ''Greetings From Lake Wu'', Wheatland Press (2003) () ** ''Greetings from Lake Wu; Signed, numbered, luxury edition'', Traife Buffet (2006) () * ''Green Grow the Rushes-Oh'', Fairwood Press (2003) () * ''American Sorrows'', Wheatland Press (2004) () * ''Dogs in the Moonlight'', Prime Books (2004) () * ''The River Knows Its Own'', Wheatland Press (2007) * ''The Sky That Wraps'', Subterranean Press (2010) () * ''Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection'', Tor Books (2014) ()


Other works

'' METAtropolis: The Wings We Dare Aspire'', with Ken Scholes
WordFire Press
(May 2014) (978-1614751564)


Edited works

*''Polyphony'' ** ''Polyphony 1'' (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (July 2002) () ** ''Polyphony 2'' (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (April 2003) () ** ''Polyphony 3'' (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (2003) () ** ''Polyphony 4'' (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (2004) () ** ''Polyphony 5'' (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (2005) () ** ''Polyphony 6'' (with Deborah Layne), Wheatland Press (December 2006) * '' All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories'' (with David Moles), Wheatland Press/All-Star Stories (2004) () * ''TEL: Stories'', Wheatland Press (2005) () * '' Spicy Slipstream Stories'' (with Nick Mamatas), Lethe Press (2008) * '' The Exquisite Corpuscle'' (with Frank Wu), Fairwood Press (2008) * '' Other Earths'' (with Nick Gevers), DAW Books (April 2009) * '' Footprints'' (with Eric T. Reynolds), Hadley Rille Books (July 2009) () *''Down In The Ship Mines'' (2012) in
SQ Mag, Edition 4
' (ed. Sophie Yorkston)


Short fiction


References


External links

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Lakeshore
Lake's blog at
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