{"id":4336,"date":"2026-02-24T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:43:18","slug":"the-language-of-liars-by-s-l-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4336","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Liars, by S.L. Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a novella with a whole range of aliens with different language features, wildly different environments, etc. Several of my friends just stopped reading this review to go pre-order or request that their library do so. You are correct, if that is the sort of thing you like, this sure is that thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What it does less successfully, I think, is the twist ending. I feel like this is a book that is <em>for<\/em> people who like science fiction about aliens, but for me, as soon as I knew the premise, I knew the ending, and I was correct. So if you&#8217;re reading for the aliens, come on in; if you&#8217;re reading for a clever twist you did not see coming, this is not that novella, that is not where Huang spent time and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the publisher. This is a novella with a whole range of aliens with different language features, wildly different environments, etc. Several of my friends just stopped reading this review to go pre-order or request that their library do so. You are correct, if that is the sort of thing you like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}