S. Qiouyi Lu writes and translates between two coasts of the Pacific. AEr work, including fiction, poetry, and essays, has appeared in several award-winning venues. In the Watchful City is aer first novella. You can find out more about S. at aer website or on Twitter.
Beautiful prose, a complex structure, and well-wrought Asian-influenced worldbuilding. . . . This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Lu has built a complex and fascinating world, futuristic and strange. --Booklist Stories within stories, possibilities within impossibilities: In the Watchful City is half-tapestry, half-menagerie, adding up to an intricate, transcendent fantasy. --Chuck Wendig An intricately nested cyberpunk story that perfectly represents the best of the genre while exploring entirely new territory. --Premee Mohamed In the Watchful City is piercing and precise, threading grief and joy through your heart as it examines the ties that bind people to one another. --Andrea Stewart A wild, wonderful, dizzying ride I didn't want to end. The worldbuilding is as intricate and intoxicating as the characters are wrenchingly alive. In the Watchful City trumpets the arrival of a major new talent. --Sam J. Miller