--- product_id: 99289332 title: "Raven Stratagem (Machineries of Empire Book 2)" price: "118466₫" currency: VND in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/99289332-raven-stratagem-machineries-of-empire-book-2 store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Raven Stratagem (Machineries of Empire Book 2) **Price:** 118466₫ **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Raven Stratagem (Machineries of Empire Book 2) - **How much does it cost?** 118466₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/99289332-raven-stratagem-machineries-of-empire-book-2) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR – WINNER OF THE 2016 LOCUS AWARD – NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS. WAR. HERESY. MADNESS. Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies as a weapon, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris. Now, General Kel Khiruev’s fleet, racing to the Severed March to stop a fresh enemy incursion, has fallen under Jedao’s sway. Only Khiruev’s aide, Lieutenant Colonel Kel Brezan, is able to shake off the influence of the brilliant but psychotic Jedao. The rogue general seems intent on defending the hexarchate, but can Khiruev—or Brezan—trust him? For that matter, can they trust Kel Command, or will their own rulers wipe out the whole swarm to destroy one man? ‘Tight-woven, breathtakingly original space opera.’ N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times on Ninefox Gambit ‘Jaw-droppingly good.’ Ars Technica on Ninefox Gambit ‘Lee finds a sumptuous beauty in physical moments and complexity in thought and motivation.’ NPR on Ninefox Gambit ‘An effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion.’ Alastair Reynolds on Ninefox Gambit Review: Simply fantastic - Simply fantastic. I usually only re-read books where I've completely forgotten everything, but after a couple of chapters of Raven Stratagem I went back to Ninefox Gambit after less than six months simply because I enjoy the characters so much I wanted every bit of their stories and their world fresh in my mind. (Plus that book is a tremendous pleasure to read with the benefit of hindsight and with a better grasp of the world building.) Raven Stratagem was a worthy sequel, with fascinating new POV characters, and an epic plot unfolding with just as many twists and turns as you'd expect after the first book. The visuals continue to be stunning; the world harrowing and terrible but full of people who try their best to be... if not good, then maybe better than the world would like them to be? And this book even more than its predecessors has a gratifying cast of queer, trans and non-binary characters of all sorts. (Except of course they don't think of it in those terms - and I do love getting glimpses of what gender expression and family and such could be like with different sets of societal expectation, especially presented like this, as a matter of fact part of another universe.) And the whole thing hits my buttons like whoa, though I feel it would take a lot of digging to get at exactly what those buttons are, and why this particular series is pushing them so hard. Review: A stunning conclusion to the first book. - Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire #2) by Yoon Ha Lee A stunning conclusion to the first book. We peer ever deeper into the Hexarchate, and the various way it works, and doesn't work, to keep the galaxy under it's thumb. Never mind the mysterious Calendrical Warfare and Exotic Technologies, that's just the dressing. The real stuff is the characters. And in this book we really get a better handle on Shous Judeo, obviously at the expense of Kel Cheris. Or not? And we have some new friends to meet and greet as well. Soon Ha Lee has done a superb job of interweaving the disparate plots, and various and sundry folks, into a very consistent, and well appointed whole. The pace is as fast, or as slow, as needed. The people feel very real, and are many layered. Plus a few surprises along the way, and it all makes for a great read! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #394,842 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #2,292 in Space Operas #3,165 in Military Science Fiction (Books) #3,448 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store) | ## Images ![Raven Stratagem (Machineries of Empire Book 2) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81qugsac8eL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simply fantastic *by S***N on September 17, 2017* Simply fantastic. I usually only re-read books where I've completely forgotten everything, but after a couple of chapters of Raven Stratagem I went back to Ninefox Gambit after less than six months simply because I enjoy the characters so much I wanted every bit of their stories and their world fresh in my mind. (Plus that book is a tremendous pleasure to read with the benefit of hindsight and with a better grasp of the world building.) Raven Stratagem was a worthy sequel, with fascinating new POV characters, and an epic plot unfolding with just as many twists and turns as you'd expect after the first book. The visuals continue to be stunning; the world harrowing and terrible but full of people who try their best to be... if not good, then maybe better than the world would like them to be? And this book even more than its predecessors has a gratifying cast of queer, trans and non-binary characters of all sorts. (Except of course they don't think of it in those terms - and I do love getting glimpses of what gender expression and family and such could be like with different sets of societal expectation, especially presented like this, as a matter of fact part of another universe.) And the whole thing hits my buttons like whoa, though I feel it would take a lot of digging to get at exactly what those buttons are, and why this particular series is pushing them so hard. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A stunning conclusion to the first book. *by J***E on September 1, 2017* Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire #2) by Yoon Ha Lee A stunning conclusion to the first book. We peer ever deeper into the Hexarchate, and the various way it works, and doesn't work, to keep the galaxy under it's thumb. Never mind the mysterious Calendrical Warfare and Exotic Technologies, that's just the dressing. The real stuff is the characters. And in this book we really get a better handle on Shous Judeo, obviously at the expense of Kel Cheris. Or not? And we have some new friends to meet and greet as well. Soon Ha Lee has done a superb job of interweaving the disparate plots, and various and sundry folks, into a very consistent, and well appointed whole. The pace is as fast, or as slow, as needed. The people feel very real, and are many layered. Plus a few surprises along the way, and it all makes for a great read! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Second in a Masterful series *by M***E on August 28, 2017* Although I am posting based on the audiobook edition of this book, I also received an ARC copy from Solaris and Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. I also bought the Kindle edition of this book. “What good is immortality if nothing has been done to repair the fault lines of the human heart?” At the outset I want to recommend to any reader of the Machineries of Empire series that they check out Yoon Ha Lee's extremely helpful Hexarchate Faction Cheat Sheet. Please note that the individual links he offers, which link to the Solaris website for his series, provide some extra information, especially about the Heptarchate Liozh faction. As much as I wanted to reread Ninefox Gambit before reading Raven Stratagem it was not possible, due to timing of completing my reading for voting on the Hugo Awards. Shortly before the publication date of Raven, Solaris had been kind enough to gift me with an ARC and I was already sooo late in getting a review out that rereading or even relistening to Ninefox seemed like a luxury I couldn’t afford, especially since I was sure I was going to end up wanting to reread this new book just as much. My feelings of the shock and awe of the immersion into the Hexarchate world of Cheris and Jedao in Ninefox still lingered. I felt like I had been tossed on a tempest for most of that book, much as I loved it. I wasn't sure I really understood it as much as I wanted to. So what to do before I embedded myself fully in Raven? (Which, btw, let's think about raven, shall we?) I felt like I needed a bit more grounding on the world I was reading about. Last week I spent a fair amount of time exploring the Machineries world on Yoon Ha Lee's website. I checked out the very useful cheatsheet he provides (as I mentioned above), plus I enjoyed reading some of the back stories of Jedao and Cheris. (Link with a full list of the short stories here, reviews of the shorts to follow on the weekend) And it's a result of especially one of those short stories that I found that maybe I had a leg up on a bit of the endgame in this, the second book in the Machineries trilogy. In contemplating the puzzling political world with mathematical zealots, exotic technologies, and the vast array of hexarchate terminology that gets thrown at us, at times it’s been all too easy to be lost in the details and not see the broad view of what’s going wrong at the heart of the world of the Hexarchate, and the ultimate reasons for Heptarchate’s fall. It is little surprise that calendrical heresy is at the root of all. There is an inextricable bond between the technological power of the Hexarchate and its reliance on a faltering, cruel system that places no value on life, while it perpetuating faith and formation instinct based on arcane rituals and the assumption that sacrifice is a fantastic destiny. While the reason for Jedao’s use in Ninefox Gambit was made quite obvious, I had puzzled over what Jedao’s goal or ultimate purpose would be as we move forward in the series. We knew that ultimately Jedao wanted a better world but how to create it? Certainly Hellspin Fortress wasn’t a great start and frankly, after a passage in this book, I'm still wondering about what the hell happened in the seeming fugue state Jedao was in at Hellspin. But, going back to basics, looking at Cheris and Jedao, we see characters that never fit neatly into their factions. Cheris, a Kel with reportedly stunning mathematical abilities that should have made her a Nirai, chose Kel. And then, that sneaky Ninefox Crowned with Eyes, Shuos Jedao, seemed to choose the Kel, as well. Why? Those that don’t fit their factions, in almost every sci-fi or dystopian world, are those who will broker the greatest change. (We could call them Divergent but this is so much deeper a world.) When making change on this scale, you're talking war and in a war, you need an army. Among new and equally rich characters, we finally meet Shuos Hexarch Mikodez in all his glory. Mikodez is a true delight, probably my favorite character of the new set. From his growing onions, to his knitting, Mikodez, is a character almost as compelling as Jedao. Mikodez is a wonderful addition to the Machineries series, as is General Khiruev. Even Brexan, a character I occasionally wanted to give a good, hard shake, is an interesting mirror reflection of Jedao’s path re: Kel, Shuos and crashhawk status. The depth, quirkiness and complexity of the characters that Lee gives us are a marvel. They are really a pleasure to read. Many have written about Lee’s masterfully smooth world with respect to gender fluidity and sexual orientation. The world he has built with respect to gender and sexuality feels so natural it just flows. There are horrors here, like attempted genocides to get the attention of Jedao/Cheris, or the Hafn, who horrifyingly use their children as energy sources. Where Ninefox Gambit introduced us to the failings of rigid political systems based on religion, Raven Stratagem offers us a world where, in spite of the slimmest of odds, hearts and minds prevail. Right now this is my top choice for nominations for best novel for the Hugos next year. Such a great read. Worth all the effort to dig into Lee's vision. Those wanting some insight into this book are directed to the short story The Robot's Math Lessons which you can find on the author's website. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/99289332-raven-stratagem-machineries-of-empire-book-2](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/99289332-raven-stratagem-machineries-of-empire-book-2) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-05-20*