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

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-...

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]

I’m 30% in and The Language of Liars is excellent. @slhuang.com

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 🤣

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

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

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

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...

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

what do you mean alien linguistics isn't sexy sexytimes ohhhhhh give me that inflection, make it both future AND perfect, yessssss

You can continue to expect my books to get thinkier and less romantic, bah who needs to pay bills

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. 😂

My latest newsletter issue is up! With book recs for works by @shaykauwe.bsky.social, @slhuang.com, and S. Hati. buttondown.com/amandahelms/...

"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...

I have like 12,000 things to do today and this wasn't on my list but there are currently 2 ways to support the Ignytes: General Donations: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/ Sponsorship: donorbox.org/sponsor-the-... If you're local to the ATL area, I'm also looking for help packing trophies.

Preorders are a gift from you to: 🎁Your future self 🖊️The author (seriously, it helps!) ✨With this book, also your childhood self: the one who dreamed of finding a hidden door to Narnia, or traveling the stars to see new worlds. Treat yourself: hornedlarkpress.com/product/the-... #BookSky #sffbooks

Oops I should have specified, this is about various factors affecting BOOK sales This is a bookish thread XD

I am still very sick so have a ramble about "r"! In my Mathematics of Word of Mouth thread, someone linked me to these very cool slides by @swilua.bsky.social They show correlation between various factors and sales. But what is "r"?

Phone ate a Bluesky thread I was working on and it was incredibly demoralizing and then I got an email from my agent that THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is entering a second printing!!! Y'all are so wonderful, go little book go us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This thread was extremely neat

Feels like a great time to tell people about Kagi Been on it a few weeks now and *I actually have useful search results again* 😭😭 $10/month for a paid product that doesn't advertise to you & just serves non-enshittified web search: kagi.com [I am unaffiliated I just like my technology to work]

I worked so hard to try to capture this 🥹

The outage last night effed me up doing this thread (grr) & I thought I put everything back but I missed one post Fortunately it was an extension of the alt text on the graph, about how we want the blue line, that's cumulative cases So uh the alt text may help if the graph's confusing! Sorry!

A thing knocking about my head re: the recent ~discourse about assuming bad author politics from problem characters. Could we be (harmfully) forgetting how to just hate a book? Ex. I *detest* that authorial decision in Liveship Traders (you know the one). HATE it. Cool, Robin Hobb is still great

What is the mathematics of word of mouth? My latest book THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS seems to be having exceptionally good word of mouth, so I found myself wondering...what does "good word of mouth" mean? You know. Mathematically.

"A shattering, transofrmative conclusion." The first trade review of #SeasonoftheSerpent is in, and it's a 🌟starred🌟 review from Kirkus! (That's 2 stars from Kirkus now for this trilogy--huzzah!) www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Oh and as part of prep for my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY, I'm making a list of science fiction novels by BIPOC or non-Western authors that include either 1) First Contact or 2) a Big Dumb Object (BDO) or 3) A Hivemind. Really want to get as many as possible. All recommendations welcome!

I just finished “The Language of Liars” by @slhuang.com. What a marvelous and sobering tale about the stories we tell ourselves in the name of science and commerce. Thank you.

Wow so thrilled to see MAKE ME BETTER on the Guardian list of Best 100 Novels of All Time!! What an incredible honor this is 🥹. See the full list here: bookshop.org/categories/m...

I finished The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com this afternoon. I am impressed and distressed both. It’s so good and so very sad. After that I needed something familiar and comfortable. So I’m rereading Ninefox Gambit, hi there @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social . My brain is a strange place.

A pair of Ruddy Turnstones in breeding plumage. They're making a quick rest stop in North Dakota on their way to the high Arctic tundra. #birds #nature #wildlife #PhotographersUnited

BUT NOT TOO BOLD, by Hache Pueyo (excellent, with spiders!) where heard: book club! everyone was more on it than me apparently

The Subtle Art of Folding Space gets a terrific review from @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! "a stunning achievement from a creative powerhouse." reactormag.com/book-review-...

Recently finished reading this one and all of these quotes are 100% accurate. What a heartbreaking, beautiful story.

Read The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com and found the POV really intriguing and can’t go wrong with cool aliens. Enjoyed it a lot and highly recommend! Spoiler alert (well not that much of a spoiler): Gutted in a good way by the ending! What a punch! It was devastating and beautiful.

It's always such a gift to be reviewed by a reviewer I already respect as much as @vanessafogg.bsky.social. The full Locus review on THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is stunning and wow this pull quote:

You've heard this before, but I'll say it again: preorders matter SO MUCH. If you're planning to buy this book, you can genuinely give my WHOLE CAREER a boost by ordering it now instead of waiting 🥰

THE FLOWER COURT a sapphic romantic fantasy in which a clever young scribe infiltrates the imperial consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman, only to find herself forced to work with the Dowager Empress’s loveliest & most condescending servant Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125....

Just bought a copy of @locusmag.bsky.social so I could read @vanessafogg.bsky.social's review of THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS, by @slhuang.com . Excellent, excellent review, V! And super thought-provoking story. Ask my family; I haven't stopped talking about it! subscribers.locusmag.com/back-issues

I just think basalt formations are nice ok www.instagram.com/p/DYK9OzRjKlo #photography #myart #scotland #staffa

Not every story needs 100,000 words to be told. Enjoying how Language of Liars unfolds quickly, getting straight to key scenes. @slhuang.com

A Red-shouldered Hawk, drying its feathers on a wet day, and giving a great view of the wonderful patterns. #Raptors is the #BirdoftheDay theme. #Birds 🪶 #eck

Happy Mother's Day to Bear Queen Circe and all the moms in books who deserve better than the shenanigans we inflict upon them 😬 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

Talking about using familial terms of address outside family contexts in different languages (like “ammo” in Arabic) & it had never once occurred to me how extraordinarily weird it is that an older man can call a younger unrelated one “son” in English. & that women don’t! Neither son nor daughter!