The Water Outlaws

A queer, gender-swapped retelling of the Water Margin, one of China's four great classical novels. Master arms instructor Lin Chong is framed by a corrupt official, sentenced to exile, and left for dead en route — only to be saved by the outlaw monk Lu Da and drawn into the Liangshan bandits, a sisterhood of women and outcasts failed by the empire that made criminals of them.

Together they take up arms against a corrupt state, in a story of found family, rebellion, and the price of justice. A finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, and Locus Awards, blending wuxia-inflected action with a defiantly modern sensibility.