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Jacqueline Koyanagi

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Jae Koyanagi (formerly Jacqueline Koyanagi) writes fantasy and science fiction. Her novel Ascension landed on the Otherwise / James Tiptree Jr. Honor List, her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, and she has been a staff writer on the series Ninth Step Murders and Ctrl-Alt-Destroy through Realm.

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Average rating: 3.65 · 2,209 ratings · 468 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ascension (Tangled Axon, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 1,704 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ninth Step Station: The Complete Season 1 (Ninth Step Station #1.1-1.10) by Malka Ann Older (Goodreads Author), Fran Wilde (Goodreads Author), Jacqueline Koyanagi (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan by Nick Mamatas (Editor), Masumi Washington (Editor), Miyuki Miyabe 3.42 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alternis by Andrea Phillips (Goodreads Author), Maurice Broaddus (Goodreads Author), Jacqueline Koyanagi (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ninth Step Station Season 2 by Malka Ann Older (Goodreads Author), Curtis C. Chen (Goodreads Author), Jacqueline Koyanagi (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Shape the Dark by Athena Andreadis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author), Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blackout Killer (Ninth Step Station, #1.4) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Clawed Limb (Ninth Step Station, #1.8) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

tags: fear, friendship-and-love, kindred-spirits, love, magic, romance

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“Love is like sunlight,” she said when I didn't respond. “You can give all of yourself to someone and still have all of yourself left to give to others, and to yourself. To your work. To anything or anyone you choose. Love isn't like food; you won't starve anyone by giving It freely. It's not a finite resource.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

tags: love, polyamory

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“Treatments worked well enough for us to get by. Most people lived into old age, but the medication, like everything else, has never been free. Life was a privilege, not a right, apparently. Something you had to struggle for when you were unlucky enough to be born at the intersection of poverty and bad genes.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

tags: disability, illness, poverty, privilege

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What should our June 2018 pick be?

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (M/M Historical Fantasy)

44 votes, 17.9%

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (F/F Historical Fiction)

31 votes, 12.6%

Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles (M/M Historical Fantasy)

21 votes, 8.5%

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (M/M YA Contemporary)

21 votes, 8.5%

The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera (F/F YA High Fantasy)

20 votes, 8.1%

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (F/F Sci-Fi)

15 votes, 6.1%

Dreadnought by April Daniels (Transgender YA Superhero)

14 votes, 5.7%

Adaptation by Malinda Lo (F/F-Bi YA Sci-Fi)

13 votes, 5.3%

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (F/F High Fantasy)

13 votes, 5.3%

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (Transgender YA Contemporary)

12 votes, 4.9%

The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune (M/M High Fantasy)

11 votes, 4.5%

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (M/M High Fantasy)

6 votes, 2.4%

A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright (M/M-Bi Space Opera)

6 votes, 2.4%

Huntress by Malinda Lo (F/F YA High Fantasy)

6 votes, 2.4%

Him by Sarina Bowen (M/M Contemporary)

5 votes, 2.0%

Abroad by Liz Jacobs (M/M NA Contemporary)

5 votes, 2.0%

Pantomime by Laura Lam (Intersex/Bi YA High Fantasy)

3 votes, 1.2%

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“Any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models. The author will not license AI companies this right. The author has already had more than 25 novels scraped without payment by AI companies. The author would like AI companies to fuck off.”
― K.J. Charles, Copper Script

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message 4: by Matt

Feb 28, 2013 07:29AM

Thank you, J., for accepting my friend request

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message 3: by William

Feb 04, 2011 03:29PM

Hi J - Thank you for your friendship!
Please visit my website http://www.peteradarkenedfairytale.co.uk
to view a sample page and many other snippets about the book.
Expected release date Feb.
Best wishes, William

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message 2: by Steve

Oct 10, 2010 12:01PM