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Inhalations
Werewolves travel to other planets to see what effects non-Earth moons have on them. Birds and humans swap bodies. People sell their knowledge of a language to get ahead. An app summons nightmares directly to your home. Mermaid hunting takes a dark turn between ex-lovers. From short stories to book reviews, poetry to translations, S. Qiouyi Lu's work covers a wide variety of styles, topics, and themes that appeal to fans of speculative fiction. Inhalations is a comprehensive collection of S. Qiouyi Lu's work first published between 2015 and 2019, many of which are not available online.
About the Author
S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, and Strange Horizons, and their translations have appeared in Clarkesworld. They edit the flash fiction and poetry magazine Arsenika. You can find out more about S. at their website, s.qiouyi.lu.
Table of Contents
Fiction
1. Introduction to the Journal of Interplanetary Lycan Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1
2. The Shapeshifter Unraveled
3. Her Sacred Spirit Soars
4. As Dark As Hunger
5. Double-Edged
6. Mother Tongues
7. What Could Be
8. Vector
9. A Complex Filament of Light
10. At Your Dream’s Edge
11. An Abundance of Fish
12. Curiosity Fruit Machine
13. From Something Emerging
14. Th Fifth Lttr
15. Someone’s Checking You Out Right Now!
Poetry
1. Inhalations
2. The Lies You Learned
3. Consistencies
4. Parallax
5. Children of the Geese
6. Badwater
7. Flashover
8. 肉骨茶 (Meat Bone Tea)
9. Particularities
Translations
1. Speechless Love
2. The Person Who Saw Cetus
Nonfiction
1. Dive into Worldbuilding with S. Qiouyi Lu
2. Steel Crow Saga Decolonizes Epic Fantasy with Style
3. The Poppy War Is a Dark Fantasy Steeped in Powerful, Painful Historical Fact
4. The Sisters of the Vast Black: A Mission to the Stars
5. Jin Yong’s A Hero Born: A Legendary Chinese Epic Travels West
6. Must-Watch TV: Into the Badlands
7. An Outcast Romance Facing the Apocalypse
8. Cry Pilot Is the Closest Thing to an Immersive Cyberpunk FPS Video Game Between Two Covers
9. The Persistence of Memories
10. Southeast Asian Retrofuturism
11. In the Darkly Humorous All My Colors, a Jerk Rewrites a Novel Only He Can Remember
12. Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Poetry Introduction
13. F&SF Interview with S. Qiouyi Lu
About the Author
S. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, and Strange Horizons, and their translations have appeared in Clarkesworld. They edit the flash fiction and poetry magazine Arsenika. You can find out more about S. at their website, s.qiouyi.lu.
Table of Contents
Fiction
1. Introduction to the Journal of Interplanetary Lycan Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1
2. The Shapeshifter Unraveled
3. Her Sacred Spirit Soars
4. As Dark As Hunger
5. Double-Edged
6. Mother Tongues
7. What Could Be
8. Vector
9. A Complex Filament of Light
10. At Your Dream’s Edge
11. An Abundance of Fish
12. Curiosity Fruit Machine
13. From Something Emerging
14. Th Fifth Lttr
15. Someone’s Checking You Out Right Now!
Poetry
1. Inhalations
2. The Lies You Learned
3. Consistencies
4. Parallax
5. Children of the Geese
6. Badwater
7. Flashover
8. 肉骨茶 (Meat Bone Tea)
9. Particularities
Translations
1. Speechless Love
2. The Person Who Saw Cetus
Nonfiction
1. Dive into Worldbuilding with S. Qiouyi Lu
2. Steel Crow Saga Decolonizes Epic Fantasy with Style
3. The Poppy War Is a Dark Fantasy Steeped in Powerful, Painful Historical Fact
4. The Sisters of the Vast Black: A Mission to the Stars
5. Jin Yong’s A Hero Born: A Legendary Chinese Epic Travels West
6. Must-Watch TV: Into the Badlands
7. An Outcast Romance Facing the Apocalypse
8. Cry Pilot Is the Closest Thing to an Immersive Cyberpunk FPS Video Game Between Two Covers
9. The Persistence of Memories
10. Southeast Asian Retrofuturism
11. In the Darkly Humorous All My Colors, a Jerk Rewrites a Novel Only He Can Remember
12. Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Poetry Introduction
13. F&SF Interview with S. Qiouyi Lu
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Published February 18, 2020
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S. Qiouyi Lu
46 books79 followersS. Qiouyi Lu writes, translates, and edits between two coasts of the Pacific. Their work has appeared in several award-winning venues. They edit the magazine Arsenika and run microverses, a hub for tiny narratives.
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November 12, 2022
Lu's work is so extraordinary, I was enthralled by their short stories and poems here. They have such a beautiful style of writing, and I feel drawn into their worlds as soon as I begin reading. Fantastic imagination and world creation in such short pieces. I was not looking forward to the non-fiction/review pieces as much, but was pleasantly surprised by how thorough they were, touching on all the things I'd want to know before reading. Now I have a few more books on my TBR! I hope they write more, I'll immediately pick up anything Lu writes!
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