Book #113 of 2026: The Language of Liars by S. L. Huang Stories about alien linguistics are almost unfairly right up my alley, and this one is top-notch, featuring a galactic conglomerate spanning thousands of civilizations and untold legions of individual member species, all reliant on the dwindling population of deep-space beings who can detect …
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Book #24 of 2026: The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang I’m not familiar with the 14th-century Chinese novel Water Margin / Outlaws of the Marsh / All Men Are Brothers, but I’ve still really enjoyed this modern genderbent retelling, in which the central bandits are now predominantly female and/or queer. Even approached as a …
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Book #13 of 2026: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 edited by Nnedi Okorafor I got my hopes up during the introduction to this collection, in which series editor John Joseph Adams explains the selection methodology: he himself read several thousand short stories of genre fiction published throughout a single calendar year, aiming …
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