Art by Kuri Huang / Edited by Jonathan Strahan
ISBN: 9781250792983 (paperback) / 9781250792990 (ebook)

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🌟 = recommended
In the Watchful City review: An impressive debut filled with folklore (New Scientist)
Starred review from Publishers Weekly
ALA Booklist Review (paywalled)
🌟 Culture Beyond Flair: A Conversation with S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld)
Interview with S. Qiouyi Lu (Civilian Reader)
Five Questions with S. Qiouyi Lu (Breaking the Glass Slipper)
Q&A with S. Qiouyi Lu (Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb)
Exclusive Interview: “In The Watchful City” Author S. Qiouyi Lu (Paul Semel)
Interview with S. Qiouyi Lu, Author of In the Watchful City (GeeklyInc)
City of Night: With In the Watchful City, S. Qiouyi Lu stakes a claim (Alta)
S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talk Neopronouns and Genre-Hopping (Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre)
In the Watchful City (New Books Network)
The Brief, Kaleidoscopic Surveillance of “In the Watchful City” (Chicago Review of Books)
The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2021 (Tor.com)
15 LGBTQ Reads for Mid and Late 2021 (Bookriot)
The Most Anticipated Books Of August 2021 (Bustle)
Here Are All The Books Being Released In August 2021 That BuzzFeed Read And Loved (Buzzfeed)
Here’s the August 2021 sci-fi and fantasy book list! (Transfer Orbit by Andrew Liptak)
14 New Books for August (Alta)
12 Books by Up-And-Coming Trans & Nonbinary Authors (Book Riot)
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Artwork by S. Qiouyi Lu.



Playlist
This Spotify playlist contains the music I was listening to while drafting In the Watchful City. The lyrics aren’t always relevant, but I listen mostly for vibe and atmosphere.