The Water Outlaws
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Published:17th Aug '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9781837860173)

A rollicking, epic fantasy queer and genderqueer retelling of the legendary classic, the Water Margin heroes its readers always deserved, giving this epic story bloody, funny new life, full of queer joy, competent women, and a found family you’ll want to join.
Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from the authorities, former arms instructor Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. A tribe of mountain outlaws, the Bandits believe in justice―for women, for the downtrodden, for thinkers who challenge a corrupt Empire. They’re also murderers, thieves and smugglers...Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history―or tear it apart.
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.
Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.
Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice―for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.
Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.
“Huang has delivered an exciting martial arts adventure!”—Book Riot
“This wuxia eat-the-rich tale is a knockout.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Reimagining the famed Chinese novel Water Margin, this epic wuxia fantasy will blow you away … Huang’s dynamic prose and animated action will keep you hooked ‘til the very last page.”—IGN
“At once a boisterous martial-arts epic, an intricate heist story, and an all too timely tale of resistance against tyrannical institutions”—Vulture
ISBN: 9781837861415
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576 pages