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Jay Lake (1964–2014)

Author of Mainspring

Includes the names: Jay Lake, ed Jay Lake, Joseph E. Lake
Also includes: Joe Edwards (1)

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Jay Lake was born in Taiwan on June 6, 1964, and was raised there and in Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1986. During his lifetime, he published over 300 short stories and nine novels including Kalimpura, Calamity of So Long a Life, and The Last Plane to Heaven. He received several awards including the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 2004. He was also the subject of a documentary called Lakeside - A Year with Jay Lake, which follows his fight against cancer, and is scheduled for release in 2014. He died from colon cancer on June 1, 2014 at the age of 49. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Mainspring… (more)
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Works by Jay Lake
Mainspring 751 copies, 34 reviews
Green 398 copies, 30 reviews
Escapement 334 copies, 10 reviews
Trial of Flowers 250 copies, 6 reviews
Other Earths (Editor) 170 copies, 4 reviews
Pinion 141 copies, 6 reviews
Endurance 138 copies, 7 reviews
Kalimpura 90 copies, 4 reviews
Rocket Science 86 copies, 4 reviews
Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection 70 copies, 3 reviews
Madness of Flowers 62 copies, 3 reviews
All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (Editor) 56 copies, 1 review
The Sky That Wraps 53 copies, 1 review
METAtropolis: Cascadia 52 copies, 2 reviews
The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack 41 copies, 2 reviews
Polyphony 3 (Editor) 32 copies, 1 review
Polyphony 1 (Editor) 32 copies, 2 reviews
The Steampunk Megapack: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories 32 copies, 1 review
Dogs in the Moonlight 28 copies, 2 reviews
Death of a Starship 25 copies, 2 reviews
Polyphony 4 (Editor) 25 copies
Polyphony 2 (Editor) 25 copies
The Stars Do Not Lie 22 copies, 3 reviews
Polyphony 6 (Editor) 20 copies, 1 review
Polyphony 5 (Editor) 20 copies
METAtropolis:The Wings We Dare Aspire 20 copies
A Water Matter (Author) 20 copies, 4 reviews
Our Lady of the Islands 19 copies, 1 review
Greetings From Lake Wu 19 copies, 1 review
METAtropolis: Green Space 17 copies
Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh 16 copies, 2 reviews
The Speed of Time 15 copies, 4 reviews
The Baby Killers 15 copies, 1 review
The Starship Mechanic (Author) 14 copies, 3 reviews
American Sorrows 13 copies
Spicy Slipstream Stories (Editor) 13 copies
TEL: Stories (Editor) 13 copies, 1 review
The River Knows Its Own 11 copies
The Specific Gravity of Grief 10 copies
Into the Gardens of Sweet Night [novelette] 10 copies
Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder (Author) 9 copies, 3 reviews
The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters! 8 copies
METAtropolis: In the Forests of the Night 8 copies, 1 review
On The Human Plan 8 copies, 1 review
The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories! 7 copies
The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and into the Black 7 copies, 2 reviews
Green Grow the Rushes-Oh 6 copies
The Big Ice 6 copies
Footprints (Editor) 6 copies
A Long Walk Home 6 copies
Jay Lake's Process of Writing 5 copies
The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars 4 copies, 1 review
Human error [short fiction] 3 copies, 1 review
Torquing Vacuum (short story) 3 copies, 1 review
Lehr Rex 3 copies
The Goat Cutter 3 copies
The exquisite corpuscle 3 copies
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories (Author) 3 copies
Permanent fatal errors [short fiction] 3 copies, 1 review
To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves (Author) 3 copies
From the countries of her dreams [short fiction] 3 copies, 2 reviews
Dream of the arrow [short fiction] 3 copies, 1 review
Untitled 2 copies
Such Bright And Risen Madness In Our Names 2 copies, 1 review
Mother Urban's Booke Of Dayes 2 copies, 1 review
Promises: A Tale Of The City Imperishable 2 copies, 1 review
White Boyz 2 copies
People Of Leaf and Branch 2 copies
The Lollygang Save the World on Accident (short story) 2 copies
Hello Said the Gun 2 copies, 1 review
Skinhorse Goes to Mars 2 copies
Over The Walls Of Eden 2 copies
Chain of Stars [short fiction] 2 copies, 1 review
Rolling steel: a pre-apocalyptic love story [short fiction] 2 copies, 1 review
Chain of Fools [short fiction] 2 copies, 1 review
Those Boiled Bones 2 copies
The God-clown Is Near 2 copies
Clown Eggs 2 copies
The Angel's Daughter 2 copies
Fading Away 2 copies
The Hangman isn't Hanging 2 copies
Dark Flowers Inverse Moon 2 copies
The American Dead 2 copies
Martyrs' Carnival 2 copies
Eating Their Sins And Ours 1 copy
Rock of Ages (Novella) 1 copy
An Exile of the heart (short story) 1 copy
Two Stories 1 copy
Fat Jack And The Spider Clown 1 copy
Ex Libris Noctis (short story) 1 copy
The Golden Whip 1 copy
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25 (Mammoth Books) 1 copy
Of Stone Castles and Vainglorious Time 1 copy
All Our Heroes Are Bastards 1 copy
The Weight Of History The Lightness Of The Future 1 copy
The Fly And Die Ticket 1 copy
A Conspiracy of Dentists 1 copy
Loving Julius 1 copy
You Know What Hunts You 1 copy
Going Bad [short story] 1 copy
Number of the Bus 1 copy
Novus Ordo Angelorum [short story] 1 copy
A Feast of Angels [short story] 1 copy
The Houses of the Favored [short story] 1 copy
Scent of the Green Cathedral [short story] 1 copy
In Defeat Of Transcendent Epiphany 1 copy
Elf Shit 1 copy
West to east [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Decaying Mansions Of Memory 1 copy
The Soul Bottles 1 copy
The Lizard Of Ooze 1 copy
Arrange the Bones 1 copy
A Very Old Man With No Wings At All 1 copy
Jeffersons West [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Crimson Mud Drying Blood 1 copy
The Angle Of My Dreams 1 copy
Devil On The Wind 1 copy
The Bull Dancers 1 copy
The Rose Egg 1 copy
The cancer catechism [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Four Clowns Of The Apocalypse 1 copy
Pax Agricola 1 copy
You Will Go On 1 copy
Sloe-eyed Jacks And Homicide Kings 1 copy
Many-Splendored 1 copy
Midnight At Valdosta's 1 copy
The Leopard's Paw 1 copy
Different in the Lands of Glory 1 copy
A Mythic Fear of the Sea 1 copy
A Tower To the Sun 1 copy
Stephenson's Rocket 1 copy
Her fingers like whips, her eyes like razors [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The blade of his plow [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Grindstone [short fiction[ 1 copy, 1 review
The temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The woman who shattered the Moon [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
They are forgotten until they come again [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Spendthrift [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Dying Dream Of Water 1 copy
That which rises ever upward [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Chewing Up The Innocent 1 copy
The tentacled d sky [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Real North 1 copy
Unchambered heart [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
A critical examination of Stigmata's print Taking the rats to Riga 1 copy, 1 review
Testaments [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The fall of the Moon [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The women who ate stone squid [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Trick Of Disaster 1 copy
Stinkpot's Private Reserve 1 copy
The Symbols At Their Doors 1 copy
This Is A Story 1 copy
Stars In The Sky 1 copy
Speciation 1 copy
Proud Walkers 1 copy
The Scent Of Rotting Roses 1 copy
Smoke 1 copy
Three The Rivals 1 copy
Under The Purplefan Trees 1 copy
Dressed All In Green-oh 1 copy
Hierophant Bridge 1 copy
Deka Logos 1 copy
A Man Falls 1 copy
Dogs In The Moonlight [short story] 1 copy
Eleven Went To Heaven 1 copy
You Want Candy 1 copy
Passive Voices 1 copy
February 1 copy
Imago 1 copy
In The Green Jungles Of Envy 1 copy
The Inertia Of Corpses 1 copy
Headed West 1 copy
Hard Times In The State Of Nature 1 copy
For The Twelve 1 copy
Gospel Truth 1 copy
Jack's House 1 copy
January 1 copy
May 1 copy
Old Ghengis Two-steppe 1 copy
One Is All Alone 1 copy
March 1 copy
Mandrill's Ass Red 1 copy
June 1 copy
Keel's Mothman Lager 1 copy
The Redundant Order Of The Night 1 copy
Mr. Scalpel And Mr. Gloves 1 copy
Aprill With His Shoures Soote 1 copy
Two All Beef Patties 1 copy
The Man with One Bright Eye 1 copy
Beer Of The Damned 1 copy
Bird Of Leaves 1 copy
Tales of the Poet and the Dog {short story} 1 copy
The Git 1 copy
April 1 copy
Alien Dreams 1 copy
Apologising to the Concrete 1 copy
G.o.d. 1 copy
Feghoot In Uruk 1 copy
Small Magic 1 copy
In the Emperor's Garden [short fiction] 1 copy
Adagio For Flames And Jealousy 1 copy
The Future By Degrees 1 copy
Brightly Shining 1 copy
The Set Of All Even Primes 1 copy
The Dead Man's Child 1 copy
Daddy's Caliban 1 copy
The Courtesy Of Guests 1 copy
The River Knows Its Own [short story] 1 copy
The Decline Of Purpose 1 copy
The Passing of Guests 1 copy
Tom Edison and His Telegraphic Harpoon 1 copy
The Cleansing Fire Of God 1 copy
Witness to the Fall 1 copy
Clean 1 copy
Christmas Season 1 copy
Champy's Monster Bitter 1 copy
Golden Pepper 1 copy
Jesus and the Cowboys 1 copy
The True Secret of Magic, Only $1.98, Write Box 47, Portland ORE 1 copy
Fat Man 1 copy
Water Castle [short fiction] 1 copy
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Steampunk (Contributor) 804 copies, 24 reviews
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited… (Contributor) 751 copies, 19 reviews
Metatropolis (Contributor) 538 copies, 28 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (Contributor) 511 copies, 4 reviews
The New Weird (Contributor) 504 copies, 13 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (Contributor) 422 copies, 7 reviews
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities,… (Contributor) 400 copies, 15 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (Contributor) 369 copies, 2 reviews
Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology (Contributor) 351 copies, 16 reviews
The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Science Fiction Adventure (Contributor) 305 copies, 10 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (Contributor) 280 copies, 3 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (Contributor) 268 copies, 6 reviews
Sympathy for the Devil (Contributor) 266 copies, 8 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (Contributor) 227 copies, 5 reviews
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 1 (Contributor) 218 copies, 6 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (Contributor) 210 copies, 3 reviews
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (Contributor) 209 copies, 9 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (Contributor) 196 copies, 3 reviews
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One (Contributor) 189 copies, 4 reviews
A Book of Horrors (Contributor) 181 copies, 24 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (Contributor) 158 copies, 6 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (Contributor) 153 copies, 2 reviews
Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables (Contributor) 148 copies, 3 reviews
Cthulhu’s Reign (Contributor) 143 copies, 5 reviews
Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels… (Contributor) 136 copies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 (Contributor) 122 copies, 1 review
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (Contributor) 120 copies, 2 reviews
Westward Weird (Contributor) 118 copies, 9 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Monsters (Contributor) 112 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 Edition (Contributor) 110 copies, 5 reviews
The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity (Contributor) 101 copies, 5 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition (Contributor) 91 copies, 1 review
The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (Contributor) 90 copies
Seeds of Change (Contributor) 86 copies, 5 reviews
Fantasy: The Best of 2004 (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
Dark Faith (Contributor) 71 copies, 4 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 (Contributor) 70 copies
Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (Contributor) 69 copies, 2 reviews
The Best of Subterranean (Contributor) 64 copies, 6 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 Edition (Contributor) 64 copies
Crime Spells (Contributor; Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
Forbidden Planets (Contributor) 59 copies, 3 reviews
Better Off Undead (Contributor) 59 copies, 2 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (Contributor) 57 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
Wizards, Inc. (Contributor) 54 copies, 1 review
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XIX (Contributor) 54 copies, 2 reviews
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 52 copies, 1 review
Visitants (Contributor) 52 copies, 11 reviews
Leviathan 4: Cities (Contributor) 50 copies
Is Anybody Out There? (Contributor) 50 copies, 1 review
Space Opera (Contributor) 50 copies, 2 reviews
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe,… (Contributor) 49 copies, 2 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons (Contributor) 48 copies
Hex in the City (Contributor) 47 copies, 2 reviews
Time After Time [Anthology 16-in-1] (Contributor) 45 copies, 3 reviews
Steampunk World (Contributor) 45 copies, 2 reviews
Best New Fantasy (Contributor) 44 copies
The Book of Dreams (Contributor) 42 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk (Contributor) 40 copies
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (Author) 40 copies, 1 review
Fantasy for Good: A Charitable Anthology (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review
A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review
Album Zutique: No. 1 (Contributor) 37 copies, 1 review
Fate Fantastic (Contributor) 35 copies
Human for a Day (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review
Clarkesworld: Issue 100 (January 2015) (Contributor) 35 copies, 9 reviews
The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (Contributor) 34 copies
Fantastic Companions (Contributor) 34 copies, 2 reviews
Straying From the Path (Introduction) 34 copies, 2 reviews
Love and Rockets (Contributor) 32 copies
Clarkesworld: Year Three (Contributor) 32 copies, 2 reviews
Grants Pass (Contributor) 31 copies, 3 reviews
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity (Contributor) 30 copies, 1 review
Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica (Contributor) 30 copies, 1 review
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The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry (Contributor) 28 copies, 2 reviews
Street Magicks (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews
Uncanny Magazine Issue 1: November/December 2014 (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews
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The Lone Star Stories Reader (Contributor) 23 copies
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Japanese Dreams: Fantasies, Fictions & Fairytales (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
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Canonical name
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Other names
Lake, Joseph E., Jr.
Edwards, Joe (pseudonym)
Date of birth
1964-06-06
Date of death
2014-06-01
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Taiwan
Place of death
Portland, Oregon, USA
Cause of death
advanced case of colon cancer
Places of residence
Portland, Oregon, USA
Education
University of Texas, Austin (BA ∙ Plan II)
Occupations
marketer
business writer
product manager
Relationships
Agents
Jennifer Jackson (DMLA)
Organizations
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Awards and honors
John W. Campbell Award (2004)
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