SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is in preorders 🎇🦑🌌]
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
- Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer. Here are a few simple links. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
- congrats to the BSFA longlist! one of my favorite awards!! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
- A Golden-crowned Kinglet getting ready to launch to another branch. These little cuties snuggle together at night to help keep warm.
- A photo from today's walk: Hummingbird. #photography #BirdPhotography #nature #wildlife #PNW #hummingbird #BirdSky #birds
- I SAID WHAT I SAID which is preorder this book, request it from your library, give your April self a gift from your January self, thank me later
- us.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
- ok, new pinned thingie pinned... oh whoops I forgot the title in the post, did I mention I'm bad at this 😅 I guess people can click the link and such
- us.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
- ok new pinned thingie incoming with a cover this time upcoming book! preorders live! all the things! :) oh and there's a goodreads giveaway happening right now, omg I am bad at this www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”? THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*! ✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...- My @strangehorizons.bsky.social poem "The blanket, the secret, the dark" was nominated for the Rhysling award!! Here is the poem. I'm glad it has been resonating. It's also eligible for the Nebula and Hugo this year <3 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-blanket-the-secret-the-dark/
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- hi i am reading @slhuang.com 's newest novella THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS and i AM NOT OKAY i am screaming internally and externally! i am not okay!!!! SL HUANG WHEN I GET YOU *sobbing*
- Shachi, Mark, Scott, and I discuss anticipated books of 2026. Includes titles by: Maggie O’Farrell @marthwells.com Moniquill Blackgoose @shaykauwe.bsky.social @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social Xochitl Gonzalez James S.A. Corey @slhuang.com @aptshadow.bsky.social narratedpodcast.com/episodes/340
- in addition to making jokes and posting politics, i write stuff eligible for awards. as nominations are underway, i repost this once more. it will pass your skyline again.
- A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
- The Wave
- My final publication of this year is now free-to-read. If you missed it on Christmas Day, here you Go!
- holy shit, thanks @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social !!
- We asked @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social for their best book of '25, the book they'd love for Xmas & their anticipated reads of '26. Read on geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why they picked @slhuang.com @abraham.bsky.social & more! geni.us/moonstorm geni.us/starstrike
- We asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! geni.us/killingspell
- I was *shaking* when I finished reading @slhuang.com 's prequel to THE WATER OUTLAWS, even more than the novel itself, which is saying something! Some stories you can taste even if it's nothing culinary, and this is bitter, fortifying, exhilarant, bony. reactormag.com/the-river-ju...
- oops I realized people may not have context for this. big game studios are OBSESSED with security. like, obsessed obsessed. I *guarantee* there are game writers who literally cannot answer these questions.
