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torpublishinggroup · 6 months

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GET BOOKT

A guide of books to gift the people in your life and yourself!

For the person who made a 200+ slide powerpoint about Neon Genesis Evangelion for a presentation party… Also for those who attend presentation parties…

The Archive Undying by @emcandon

For all former and current theater kids (affectionate)...

Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston

For the reader who prefers their off-the-wall science fiction tempered with social commentary, or enjoys social commentary in a space opera font…

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━

For the friend with the SHUDDER account…

Piñata: A Novel by Leopoldo Gout

For the burned-out chosen one who’s so, so tired…

The Saint of Bright Doors by @adamantine

For the tumblr mutual that fell down the wuxia cdrama hole…

The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━

For the gamer who fondly remembers their confrontation with Rayquaza atop the Sky Pillar…

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

For the “smash first, questions later” friend in your life…

Ebony Gate by Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle

For a tragic superwholockian in dire need of restorative sapphic fiction…

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━

For the reader who wished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was actually Jonathan Strange/Mr Norrell…

The Last Binding trilogy by @fahye, including:

● A Marvellous Light

● A Restless Truth

● A Power Unbound

━ ˖°˖ ☾☆☽ ˖°˖ ━

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drowninginabactatank · 4 months

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My next read: The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang 🌊

#the water outlaws #S L Huang #sl huang #bookblr #bookworm #bookish 📚#booktography #mine #ferns #aesthetic #reading

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yourdailyqueer · 1 year

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S. L. Huang (Shi Lian Huang)

Gender: Non binary (any pronouns)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Chinese, white

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, stunt actor, weapons expert

Note: First woman (at the time) to be a professional armorer in Hollywood

#S L Huang #S. L. Huang #Shi Lian Huang #queerness #lgbtq #non binary #queer #asian #poc #chinese #biracial #writer #stunt actor #first

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godlyheathens · 8 months

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#book polls #polls #tumblr polls #bookish #booklr #bookworm #mirella says #text #witch king #martha wells #the first move #jenny ireland #the water outlaws #s l huang #little thieves #margaret owen #zhara #s jae jones

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nzbookwyrm · 10 months

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#book recommendations #zero sum game #s l huang

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zishuge · 1 month

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The Spirealm 致命游戏 (2024) | Ep. 33

#the spirealm #致命游戏 #kaleidoscope of death #ruan nanzhu #lin qiushi #huang junjie #xia zhiguang #cdrama #cdramasource #kodedit #userhanyi #*gifs:mine #it's the way he literally slows down when he hears ruan-di #lingling really out here giving this man both daddy and gege kinks p l e a s e

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lets-steal-an-archive · 3 months

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"The omissions of the works of S. L. Huang, Neil Gaiman, Paul Weimer and Xiran Jay Zhao formed the outline of the puzzle that has been confounding all of us since January 20th. The emails, spreadsheets and Lacey’s personal reminiscences provided a great number of the pieces that provided most of the answers fans have been asking for, at least for now. As far as our investigation is concerned there was no reason to exclude the works of Huang, Gaiman, Weimer or Xiran Jay Zhao, save for being viewed as being undesirable in the view of the the Hugo Award admins which had the effect of being the proxies Chinese government."

#hugo awards #censorship #2023 hugo awards #s. l. huang #paul weimer #neil gaiman #xiran jay zhao

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bigcats-birds-and-books · 9 months

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August Preorder Haul! Featuring LOOK NO FURTHER and THE WATER OUTLAWS, both of which I have been anticipating for a long time!

#books #book photography #my photography #look no further #rioghnach robinson #siofra robinson #riley redgate #the water outlaws #s. l. huang #what an excellent month for preorders tbh #also if i'm going to have bad impulse control about buying books (it's a coping strategy okay) i might as well post the evidence on the--#--internet for dopamine right #right

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parsleysagerosemarytimemachine · 3 months

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Really enjoying the trend of fantasy that is retellings of stories I know of, but only in the broadest strokes. (This also works for historical events.) Anyway, fun, almost pulpy adventure about a group of lady outlaws in semi-historical China, oversized personalities clashing with a world too small for them.

#books #reviews #The Water Outlaws #S. L. Huang

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le-trash-prince · 2 months

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She hadn’t wanted to admit that injustice was anything more than a rarity, the sad result only when a thousand turns of luck all landed wrong. How could it be the usual way of things? How could civilization be rotten to its core and still function?

The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang

#the water outlaws #s. l. huang #books #book quotes #em post

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oracleofmadness · 10 months

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Absolutely epic feminism. This is empowering. It made me want to conquer and spread equality everywhere. It is truly inspiring.

This book feels like a classic, but it boasts modern ideas and deals with timeless issues, particularly for women, but really any gender or sexuality.

I loved this so much!

Out August 22, 2023!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

#book #bookish #books #bookworm #book review #currently reading #read #bookblogger #reading #book recs #book recommendations #the water outlaws #S. L. Huang #netgalley

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torpublishinggroup · 4 days

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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Bandits of Liangshan proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats. Together, they could bring down an empire.

Swordcrossed by @fahye

Part-time con artist / full-time charming menace Luca Piere didn’t expect to get blackmailed into teaching a chronically responsible merchant Matti how to wield a sword. He also didn’t expect to find his charge so inconveniently handsome, or to get so entangled in his tale of intrigue, sabotage, and matrimony.

It’s important to read Swordcrossed because while you’re reading gay fiction, you can also study the blade.

#the water outlaws #s l huang #swordcrossed #freya marske #tordotcom publishing #sword books #study the blade #gay books #lgbtqia+#new books #tbr

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drowninginabactatank · 5 months

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Books I'm excitedly waiting for~📚

🔸️A River of Golden Bones by A. K. Mulford (bib.leo.phile/Custom Sprayed Edges edition)

🔸️The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang (bib.leo.phile/Custom Sprayed Edges edition)

Chetna does such beautiful work on the edges, has been so wonderful with communication and packs really well for shipping - each book from her has arrived safe and sound to Australia!

#bib.leo.phile #Custom Sprayed Edges #a river of golden bones #a. k. mulford #the water outlaws #s. l. huang #a k mulford #s l huang #bookblr #bookworm #mine #bookish 📚

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sapphic-book-tournament · 7 months

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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse-

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.\

Water Outlaws by SL Huang-

Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.

Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.

Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.

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rhetoricandlogic · 10 months

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Burning Roses - S.L. Huang

This is a fun, sweet novella that I read in a single sitting, enjoying the fairy tale mashup and reimagining, as well as the family stories at its heart. It features two older queer women, estranged from their wives and kids, who are on a quest to stop some rampaging monsters, but that winds up functioning mostly as a frame story for the two of them working through the issues in their own pasts. The story is told from the POV of Rosa (Little Red Riding Hood grown up and now a recovering zealot), who’s running from her past by fighting firebirds with Hou Yi, an archer from Chinese legend who in this version is female.

The story moves quickly, and although practically everybody in it belongs to some fairy tale or other, it feels natural and Huang is quick to alter the fairy tales in service of her story (this is important in retellings, which can wind up unsatisfying if the author sticks too slavishly to the original material). I found the story enjoyable and interesting, and appreciated the complex look at prejudice early on. As a child, Rosa knows her mother is a bigot toward the “grundwirgen” (talking animals or animal-people), and she’s trying so hard to prove she’s not like that, she deliberately overlooks warning signs about the Big Bad Wolf, with tragic consequences. But this in turn leads to a vendetta in which she kills some grundwirgen who aren’t in fact doing anything wrong. There’s also a fair amount of complexity in the relationships for such a short book, and I appreciated that Rosa and Hou Yi both have made bad choices, and their stories are largely about their willingness to try to make up for them. So often fictional women are written as boringly perfect, but these have the sharp edges that make characters interesting and worth reading about.

The book didn’t quite blow me away. The quest frame story didn’t capture my interest as well as the backstory bits did, and the ending, while sweet, feels a bit rushed. But I enjoyed it and would read more from this author.

(Also, because I'm seeing it in other reviews and it bugs me: no, Rosa is not Latina. It appears that Spanish may be her native language, though it's a bit unclear because while she calls her grandmother abuela, she also grows up talking about grundwirgen, a word that sounds extremely German and which a native Spanish-speaker would struggle to pronounce. But given the technology level, presence of kings and ability to walk to China, I think it's safe to say she's from an alternate version of Europe, not Latin America and certainly not from Latin American immigrants living in the U.S. - therefore, not Latina. My best guess is that she grows up in Germany with a grandmother from Spain.)

#S. L. Huang #Burning Roses #mahreviews #long post

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johnnyricks · 2 months

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Ding ding ding!

The Water Outlaws is very decent, very aesthetic, there is so many strong women in it. There is too many strong women in it. Too many characters.

3.75/5

#the water outlaws #s. l. huang #solitude book club

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