Since his first sale in 1999, Lee has published short fiction in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
Clarkesworld,
Lightspeed and elsewhere. Three of his stories have been reprinted in
Gardner Dozois's ''
The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies. Dozois wrote that Lee is "one of those helping to move science fiction into the twenty-first century". In 2012, Lee wrote
Winterstrike, a
browser-based text adventure game, for
Failbetter Games. Lee's short fiction has received praise from fellow authors and from literary awards organizations.
Aliette de Bodard wrote the introduction for
Conservation of Shadows and has twice recommended one of Lee's stories in her best of year-round-ups: she selected "
Ghostweight" as a favorite of 2011 and "The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars" was chosen in her 2013 eligibility and recommendations post as "the one that most blew me away this year". "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" and "Ghostweight" were nominated for the
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
Dragon Pearl won the 2020
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book and the 2020
Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature. It was a finalist for the 2020
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the 2019
Andre Norton Award. Lee's young adult novel
Moonstorm was published in 2024 and was also well-received critically. It won the 2025
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book and was a finalist for several other accolades. It was followed by a sequel,
Starstrike, in 2025. ==Bibliography==