Khan Wong

elymaiis on Tumblr: ""If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime," but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river, and our parents should have gotten us the same if we wanted fish. You gave a man a fish to murder us if we step too close to the river, or speak too loud, or eat a fish from another river. You've copyrighted the fishing net. It costs us fish to leave."

hey maybe you remember Chris Smalls when he was organizing in Amazon warehouses. and maybe you, like me, thought, wow this man is a hero. and then he left with the freedom flotilla and they were kidnapped by the IOF.

call the state dept and demand he be brought home: 1 (202) 647-6575

51. SFF (but particularly fantasy) needs a sense of mystery to work. don't go to every place on the map. don't explain everything. don't have a magic "system". this isn't math class, I don't need to see how you got this result. in fact, I hope you multiply x and y and end up with red

Super-intrigued by this!

I’ve listened to the song a few times now and I totally get it 🫶

Thank you 💚🍵🐋

Going to check out this song now!

Panel backdrop featuring the title Other Worlds: Building Sci-Fi Spaces with the author names Matt Dinniman, Arkady Martine, and Khan Wong, with their book covers

Overhead shot of the bookseller’s area in the Columbus Metropolitan Library diring the Columbus Book Festival

black orbs of unknown material hangong from the ceiling of the lobby at the Columbus Metropolitan Library

selfie of the author in the Columbus Metropolitan Library

The Columbus Book Festival was a blast - well run, with an enthusiastic and supportive audience. I met so many readers and fellow authors, and they sold out of both my books. I sent quite a few folks to @bookshop.org as an alternative. Thanks for having me Columbus!

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

Columbus! Lauren Marie Fleming, @khanwong.bsky.social & I will be talking about the importance of literary community on our panel “No One Can Do It Alone: The Writing Community.” Moderated by Kathryn Powers. Authors will sign their books after the panel. Come see us at the Columbus Book Festival!

Excited to be part of #Octocon2025

Join us at #BayCon!

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Come hear, come hang, come chill

Hit 80k on the wip. Thinking I can wrap up this draft at 100 - 105k. Getting close! ✍️📚

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

relatable

Hey remember when the one of the most prominent Democrats in Minnesota and her husband were assassinated

god i just cannot imagine giving a shit about what gender strangers live their lives in. like we get really wrapped up in layers of using science and poetry to defend ourselves but holy shit are transphobes just fucking busybody creeps

This was the norm when I was a kid in suburban New Jersey

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

I can’t understand, after the last 30 years of it happening EVERY TIME, how people think AI is going to stay free

Once everyone’s reliant, it’ll cost a fortune we just “have” to pay

Its energy needs will cost us the only world we have

All so someone doesn’t have to write their own Reddit shitpost

tfw an acquaintance wants to buy your book and asks for a link and you send the Bookshop.org page and they reply with “thanks I’ll get it from Amazon” 😕

Sure I get paid the same but support indie bookstores!

Stoked to be part of another Stars and Sabers anthology!

Congrats!! 🎉

I’m going to pants it - feeling the need to mix up the process a bit, you know? We’ll see if it ends in triumph or disaster!

At 68k on the current wip! Stoked about that. But also, because of changes I made while drafting, most of my outline for the rest of the book makes no sense now. I know how the end goes, but it looks like I may be pantsing the parts between where I am now and where I need to end. Wheeeee...!

Thank you Lilly and Sara! Great questions 🍵🐋💜

I say we nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

10 New Books to Read This AAPI Heritage Month From a graphic semi-memoir to the latest from Ocean Vuong, we're rounding up some of our favorite spring books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors.

My book being on the same list as these other authors is an honor and a trip 🥹

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DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS by Khan Wong Read by Eunice Wong | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine AudioFile Audiobook Review: Eunice Wong does an outstanding job of narrating this combination of dystopian fantasy, historical fiction, and sci-fi. She captures the atmosphere of

The audiobook received an Earphones Award from @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social ! (Audiobook world’s version of a starred review)

Big congrats to narrator Eunice Wong!