Inhalations: Collected Works, Volume 1

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. 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 , , and , and their translations have appeared in . They edit the flash fiction and poetry magazine . 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

Nonfiction

1. Decolonizes Epic Fantasy with Style

2. Is a Dark Fantasy Steeped in Powerful, Painful Historical Fact

3. The : A Mission to the Stars

4. Jin Yong’s : A Legendary Chinese Epic Travels West

5. Must-Watch TV:

6. An Outcast Romance Facing the Apocalypse

7. Is the Closest Thing to an Immersive Cyberpunk FPS Video Game Between Two Covers

8. The Persistence of Memories

9. Southeast Asian Retrofuturism

10. In the Darkly Humorous , a Jerk Rewrites a Novel Only He Can Remember

11. Poetry Introduction

12. F&SF Interview with S. Qiouyi Lu