SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]
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THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS, April 2026. "Hugo award winner Huang stuns in this philosophical sci-fi exploration of linguistics and lost civilizations" - PW (⭐) "Fast paced and sharp" - LJ (⭐) Not here very much. Mailing list: slhuang.com
Bandit heroes, horse-dragons, beheadings that don't stick, and warlords who become gods. Old Chinese lit is wayyy trippier than you think. And John Zhu built a podcast that retells it in English! See our #flightsoffoundry interview with him at 7PM CDT tonight: www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of...
I read THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by @slhuang.com last night for a bedtime story and was very very very unprepared for how much that ending would devastate me. Guh. (Do read it.)
How do you plan a creative project that will last 3+ years? John Zhu knew bringing ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS to English podcast form would take at least that long. 12 years and 4 Chinese epics later... See us interview him 7PM CDT at #flightsoffoundry! www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of...
Literally just finished the audio book of The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com and when I tell you I cried buckets, I am not exaggerating. Highly highly recommend this stunning work. And, speaking as a voice actor and director, the audio performance was perfect!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Language of Liars
Check out The Language of Liars - <p><b>A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, <i>The Language of Liars</i> is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning au...
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Ancient Chinese literature is rife with melee fights, larger-than-life characters, & the supernatural. John Zhu is making these epics accessible to modern English audiences -- as a podcast! We'll interview him as #flightsoffoundry Guest of Honor, today 7PM CDT: www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of...
My Locus review of @slhuang.com ‘s brilliant The Language of Liars is now online and free to read! locusmag.com/review/the-l...
The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang: Review by Vanessa Fogg
The Language of Liars, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom 978-1-25040-533-3, $24.99, 176pp, hc) April 2026. The Language of Liars opens with a young linguist’s musings on all the different words for “doubt” tha…
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I finished @slhuang.com's powerful, poignant THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS in one sitting. I'm a sucker for SFF that involves linguistics and social issues; this novel has both in spades. I figured out the endgame pretty early but that by no means diminished my enjoyment. Superbly done.
So you wanna podcast literature? John Zhu has been doing it for over a decade. Come see us interview him at 7PM CDT / 8PM EDT Friday at #flightsoffoundry: www.accelevents.com/e/flights-of...
Flights of Foundry, Fri, Sep 18th, 2026 @ 11:59 AM Accelevents
The most expansive conference for speculative creatives is back!With round-the-clock programming, global attendance, and conversations covering every medium, you won't want to miss out on our seventh year of Flights of Foundry.
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I hit repost too fast bc I needed to add THIS IS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN 😭😭😭 also "full immersion study abroad program all-time champion" for a character who jumps bodies by increasing language fluency is *chef's kiss* brb changing the tagline of the book everywhere 🚀🦑
DanAAAAAAAAAA Boo-rube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis book gave me so many feelings I had to draw tonally inappropriate silly fanart about it!! We love our foreign language full immersion study abroad program all-time champion Ro!!!
This book gave me so many feelings I had to draw tonally inappropriate silly fanart about it!! We love our foreign language full immersion study abroad program all-time champion Ro!!!
SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 9mo agous.macmillan.com/books/978125... 💥 "devastating" - Rebecca Roanhorse 💥 "destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee 💥 "f*king fantastic" - Samantha Mills 💥 "i AM NOT OKAY" - Mia Tsai 💥 "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke 💥 "heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei 💥 "brilliant" - Wole Talabi 💥 "SF at its best" - Kate Elliott
i just finished "The Language of Liars" by @slhuang.com and holy WOW. this is a book that nails the novella format so well, especially for reading slowly and carefully. picking it apart. it's a book for: - language nerds - travelers (time or otherwise) - people who like their friends - people
The Language of Liars
Check out The Language of Liars - <p><b>A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, <i>The Language of Liars</i> is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning au...
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Happy Pride! As far as I know, none of my books are on sale, but if you want a romance involving an anxious bisexual man or a museum ethics adventure with a princess lesbian and a feral knight bisexual woman, I got you. tachyonpublications.com/product/bitt... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Bitter Medicine - Tachyon Publications
[STARRED REVIEW] “Sparks fly in Tsai’s refreshing and enchanting paranormal debut. . . . With brilliantly developed, multifaceted characters; a clever magic system; and witty prose, the pages of this ...
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I don't usually crosspost my Tiktoks here but I thought this one might be Of Interest*: 7 Women of Color Who Wrote Speculative Fiction Before 1980 www.tiktok.com/@s.l.huang/p... (who you can still read today! in english 😅) [*perhaps especially to @nisishawl.bsky.social @jdnicoll.bsky.social]
POV a few months from now: we're all bringing back webrings to get around the internet 😭
oh my god every time I see that title 🤣
Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 5mo agoTHIS SATURDAY: join me at the Red Wing Library as I discuss my community reads book, Cheddar Luck Next Time, & get personal about life as a cheese-loving autistic person! 🧀 10AM in the Foot Room. (The free books have already been given away! They went fast!)
I'll do you one better, I thought Yo-seh-mih-tee and Yah-seh-might were two different parks ...I was an adult before I figured it out
Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 5mo agoConfession: I used to think “Yosemite” was pronounced like “marmite”.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Anatidae. Quack! Honk! A sleeping mallard drake, down on the Wandle Delta. Or is he? I may have been spotted... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #mallard
linguistics is literally as sexy as you can getttt (trust me guys i have two degrees in it i am expert)
Lololol completely forgot about my 4am shitposting until l woke up to packed notifs; glad everyone enjoyed! If all that sound like a sexy time to you the book is THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS. I can haz romantasy monies now? 😚🤣 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Language of Liars
A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, The Language of Liars is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning author...
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no YOU invented a species that reproduces via asexual budding and thus doesn't even HAVE sex also they've forgotten how to do THAT I've graduated from books without sex to entire worlds without sex, am I doing this romantasy thing right
Fonda Lee@fondalee.bsky.social · 6mo agoGlad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)
what do you mean alien linguistics isn't sexy sexytimes ohhhhhh give me that inflection, make it both future AND perfect, yessssss
Fonda Lee@fondalee.bsky.social · 6mo agoGlad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)
You can continue to expect my books to get thinkier and less romantic, bah who needs to pay bills
Fonda Lee@fondalee.bsky.social · 6mo agoGlad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)
I'm in the middle of Villain by @nataliezed.bsky.social ; it's amazing so far. It's a sequel to Hench, one of my all-time favorites. Just finished The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com , heartbreaking and wonderful. Also Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social was a bunch of fun.
I went in to "The Language of Liars" knowing nothing but the title because luckily the first mention I saw was more or less "do yourself a favor and don't read anything else about it befoe you read this book!" 100% agree, top tier experience. I didn't even read the jacket copy or the inside flap. 😂
SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 5mo agoso many people saying they wish they didn't know anything about THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS going in sadly hard to tempt people to read and... not say anything about the book... just gotta become this year's Sixth Sense where everyone's all DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU ANYTHING JUST READ
My latest newsletter issue is up! With book recs for works by @shaykauwe.bsky.social, @slhuang.com, and S. Hati. buttondown.com/amandahelms/...
Book Rec Quick Hits
Greetings, readers, from the other side of two months of deadline rush! Over April and May, I was hard at work with edits on my forthcoming book, The Upper...
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"The Language of Liars" by @slhuang.com this one is so good, i am sitting with it a lot. it's giving me so much to think about and consider that i don't want to go through it quickly. wanna read 2 chapters and then do BIG THOUGHTS
Self-promo time: The Subtle Art of Folding Space Are people rewriting the physical laws of the universe for their own personal gain? What if the only things preventing anyone from doing this are norms? What do you do? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Subtle Art of Folding Space
The Subtle Art of Folding Space is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu which channels unhinged ph...
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Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 5mo agoI just finished the latest Dungeon Crawler book. Pls send me your recommendations for my next read, series or not. Some of my favorite authors/books are Becky Chambers, Octavia Butler, the Red Rising series, Battle Royale, When Women Were Dragons, etc. Sci-fi appreciated but not necessary.
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