@angelaliu
Writer/poet. Tiger mom. Hugo, Nebula, Ignyte, Rhysling, Locus, & Astounding Award finalist. She/her. Member of: SFWA, Codex, SFPA. Words in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Logic(s) https://linktr.ee/liu_angela
This week’s magazine review features some cli-fi, a couple ghost stories, a living ship, a wolf(e)ish novella, a high-concept work in translation, and two first contacts. Check it out! www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/10/t...
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
Since this one’s got a lot of unexpected love the past month, here’s the poem I had the most fun writing last year:
“The Church At The Edge of Time” in @strangehorizons.bsky.social
March 20th! Get your weirdest flash stories ready!
ARC of Rabbit Test and Other Stories held up outdoors against a sunny sky and bright green leaves
It is March already. 😱 It is unseasonably warm out. 😱 My first short story collection comes out April 21. 😱😱
Rabbit Test and Other Stories contains all my favorite experiments in scifi and fantasy. I'm very proud of it. :)
Preorder links at samtasticbooks.com/collections
I always put on the Magus theme when I have to write an dramatic scene 🦇
Do itttttt, no better excuse to take a trip 😂
I have replayed it so many times. Always so much fun. Really hoping for an HD-2D remake!
YESSSSS
“What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom“ is the first I’ve read by @angelaliu.bsky.social and it’s great.
An emotional tale of a couple growing apart, and the lingering effects of our parents into adulthood. And a strange hole.
Read here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...
🖤
Thanks so much for reading!
my 7-year-old’s teacher: so, i hear you write?
me: *jump into a bush*
Went to my 7-year-old’s class today for their poetry publishing party (the kids had just finished learning about rhyming + onomatopoeia) and my favorite line was from a poem called The Sun: “the sand is hot and my feet go ahhh!”
for real, nothing makes me happier than translation requests 😭
You can read the original here:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/ther...
It’s my first time having a poem translated!
My Hugo-nominated poem, “there are no taxis for the dead” (from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social) is now available in Romanian in the new issue of Galaxia 42! Many thanks to Eliza Claudia Filimon for translating!
galaxia42.ro/revista-gala...
"Don't be so careful in time of death" is the motto I live by right now.
Whoa whoa, hope it’s not getting bigger and there’re no voices coming from it 💀🕯️
“Distance, like love, is a feeling you cannot measure until the end.”
This was an especially immersive read today as I read in a room that currently has a hole in the ceiling. Not sure I can look at it the same. 👀
Beautiful work Angela!!
Thanks for reading and the kind comments! (And nothing brings me more joy than knowing my story has made someone more concerned about the holes in their house 😂)
Thanks Charles! You too! 💙
☺️🙏🏻
you are wonderful 🖤
You can listen to the story narrated in this month’s podcast too (by the fantastic @mrmightyink.bsky.social)!
I also got to talk a bit about THE hole in the bathroom and why I picked these characters to write about.
“Sci-fi/horror Piranesi but written by Gene Wolfe” is about the best description I’ve got. Perhaps “sci-fi Gormenghast by Wolfe” is better, but I haven’t read Gormenghast.
Anyways, that’s my pitch, so if that’s your jam, go read it
I've been saying for a while, Wuxia's going to be a rising wave. Oh look, we've got about half a dozen shows coming soon. To brush up your Xia sense, here's some handy articles. In this one, I look at how the genre relates to similar ones in Western fantasy. 1/ #sff snowpavilion.co.uk/condor-heroes/
Netherlands!
Yes! In the northern renaissance gallery!
this is poetry 🍷