The Language of Liars

谎言的语言

Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

2026-10-07

28 分钟
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An interview with science-fiction author S.L. Huang, whose experience learning languages informed their most recent novella, ⁠⁠The Language of Liars⁠⁠. Visit Lexicon Valley. A Booksmart Studios Production. Episode 314: "The Language of Liars." With Mike Vuolo. Edited and produced by Mike Vuolo. Produced by Livia Bloom Ingram. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

  • I'm Mike Folo.

  • Bob Garfield is away this week.

  • Today on the show, a conversation with S.L.

  • Huang, the Hugo Award winning author of speculative and science fiction, Hollywood stunt performer, firearms expert,

  • and if that wasn't enough, MIT educated mathematician.

  • But it was a deep interest in languages that inspired their most recent novella called The Language of Liars.

  • Publishers Weekly called it a fascinating linguistic puzzle

  • that will entice hard sci-fi fans and literary scholars alike.

  • SL, on the Venn diagram of various cohorts,

  • sci-fi fans and literary scholars, that's a pretty good overlap, don't you think?

  • Wow, thank you so much, and thank you for that wonderful introduction.

  • I've been really blown away by the reception to this book,

  • obviously very honored by what people are taking away from it.