Speculative fiction writer, translator, and editor

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Awards Eligibility (2022)

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 6, 2022  •  0 Comments

This year has been rough. It’s the first time in my life I’ve held down a job for over a year, and a full-time, labor-intensive job to boot, where the only time I can sit down is on my breaks or lunch. It’s hard to write when you’re working in the middle of a global […]

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Dieselpunk road map

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 6, 2014  •  0 Comments
Lanterns & clouds

In thinking about dieselpunk’s aesthetics and historical context and how to engage with that without glorifying war and Nazis or relying on Orientalist tropes, I plan on going through a list of media and articles to set a baseline for dieselpunk as it’s currently expressed and discussed. I’ll be adding to this regularly.

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Disorienting semantics

By S. Qiouyi Lu  •  December 6, 2014  •  0 Comments
Lanterns & clouds

When I say “disorienting”, I mean it in the traditional sense of the word: I want us to lose our bearings, to stray from the paths we know. I want us to be lost. I want us to deconstruct and dismantle the familiar and unfamiliar. In disorienting us, I want to offer us the opportunity to reclaim our […]

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