Heavenly Tyrant - Blog Posts

Seeing Shimin in chapter 51 of Heavenly Tyrant

Me reading Qin Zheng's speech during the coronation

Why I do not consider Iron Widow a "feminist" book and how there's a difference between female rage and feminism, which only kicks in throughout Heavenly Tyrant as Zetian gets educated and ties the gender struggle to the class struggle

Happy International Working Women's Day! Never forget its origins in the labor movement! There will never be true emancipation for women without emancipation of the working class.

I finished ‘Heavenly Tyrant’

I still have thoughts

HOW THE FUCK DID HE LIVE?!?!?!

This man has survived so much fucking shit? And for what??

Zetian made an enemy of the fucking EMPEROR, got her polycule back, Shimin is a robot, they’re who the fuck knows where, and they have 6 months to pull their shit together enough to defeat aliens.

By brain hurts, and it’s this book’s fault. Fuck, I can’t wait for the final book to come out.

AAAAHHHHHH

I’m currently reading ‘Heavenly Tyrant’ and I have a thought. Spoilers below

I CANNOT deal with Qin Zheng’s ass for 500 more fucking pages. I can’t STAND this man-child. Holy shit, can with kill this man already?

At first, I was like “okay, he’s masoginistic in a progressive way” nah. He’s just a fucking asshole

Get fucked Qin Zheng, I hope you fucking choke

Heavenly Tyrant ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) are now up on Netgalley and Edelweiss! If you don't know what those are then don't worry about it. You'll be able to read it upon the official release, which WILL be on Dec 24 this year! So, a little more than 3 months to go. I'm freaking out because I have no idea if you'll like the book; it's very diffrent from Iron Widow in a lot of ways...but here is what to expect!

Preorder links

As an apology for the literal years of delays, beneath the cut is also the entire prologue of HT. Feel free to read it while blasting Bring Me to Life by Evanescence like you're still watching anime in 3 parts on YouTube.

It’s release day for Heavenly Tyrant, the sequel to Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao! I'm still proud of this one a few years later, if you haven’t yet it’s definitely worth finding a physical copy to see the full wraparound. I also have prints available in my print shop!

Many thanks again to AD Terri Nimmo for working with me on this one!