![]() This is nowhere more evident than in “The Book of Locked Doors,” where the eponymous book draws magic from memories of dead people, forever frozen in misleading, one-purpose images: the dead are recorded only through their ability to practise magic, and this magic is the only thing that the book provides to its users. Lee’s stories present, over and over, this fundamental tension between image and truth between myth and reality between actual behaviour and model. ![]() Models can dictate the behaviour of the universe, and yet at the same time fail to describe its complexity. One thing I find amazing about Yoon Ha Lee’s fiction is to see it so steeped in that same logic, and to find across her stories the same fascination about models. ![]() Mathematics, like most sciences, presents laws and models that are meant to hold true in reality-but, like most sciences, maths is constantly evolving and adapting itself to new observations that do not fit its models. In my other life, I am a computer engineer and I do a lot of mathematics. ![]()
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