{"title":"Books by S. L. Huang","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781837861415","title":"The Water Outlaws","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Best-Of Pick for Vulture |The Washington Post | Publishers Weekly | Men's Health | IGN | Polygon | Goodreads | Amazon | Nerd Daily | WeAreBookish | Paste | Books, Bones \u0026amp; Buffy | The Escapist | Paste Magazine | SciFixFantasy | Distractify | Gizmodo | Ms. Magazine | Booklist | Popsugar | Book Riot | Autostraddle | The Mary Sue \u0026amp; othersFinalist for the American Library Association Carnegie Medal | British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel | Nebula Award for Best Novel | Ignyte Award | Dragon Award | Locus AwardInspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history - or tear it apart.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wuxia eat-the-rich tale is a knockout' - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisgraced, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMountain 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. Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. 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Admires them, respects them, is reverent at the idea of being one of them—the only species physiologically capable of mining the element needed for lightyearspanning space travel. The species all others crave to know more of, but who have notoriously shared so very little. The species Ro's own small civilization, with its dwindling resources and withering reach, needs to know more about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt will feel real\u003c\/i\u003e, his elders impressed upon him. \u003ci\u003eIt will never be real.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Ro's certainty runs deep: he will be different. Ro will not be an imposter hiding the truth of his past, because his heart will be one of them. \u003ci\u003eHe \u003c\/i\u003ewill be one of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo understand is to become. 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