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Ken Liu
Author · 58 books

Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other places. Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. His debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. The most recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode of Netflix's breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Ken. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Ken frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise. Ken is also the translator for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Hao Jingfang's Vagabonds, Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide, as well as the editor of Invisible Planets and Broken Stars, anthologies of contemporary Chinese science fiction. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Series

Books

Isolation book cover

Isolation

The Horror Anthology

2022

The Long List Anthology book cover

The Long List Anthology

More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

2015

Diverse Energies book cover

Diverse Energies

2012

Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon book cover

Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon

2014

The Passing of the Dragon book cover

The Passing of the Dragon

2023

Star Quake 3 book cover

Star Quake 3

SQ Mag's Best of 2014

2015

爱的算法 book cover

爱的算法

2004

The Grace of Kings book cover

The Grace of Kings

2015

The Armies of Those I Love book cover

The Armies of Those I Love

2021

The Veiled Throne book cover

The Veiled Throne

2021

The Paper Menagerie book cover

The Paper Menagerie

2011

The Book of Dragons book cover

The Book of Dragons

2020

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año X

2022

The End Has Come book cover

The End Has Come

2015

The Wall of Storms book cover

The Wall of Storms

2016

Made to Order book cover

Made to Order

Robots and Revolution

2020

ในระลอกกาล และเรื่องสั้นอื่นๆ book cover

ในระลอกกาล และเรื่องสั้นอื่นๆ

2019

Bifrost n°107 book cover

Bifrost n°107

Spécial fictions

2022

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

2020

Single-Bit Error

2009

The Litigatrix book cover

The Litigatrix

2013

Le Mur de Tempêtes book cover

Le Mur de Tempêtes

2016

Freakcions - Núm. 8 book cover

Freakcions - Núm. 8

2022

Star Wars book cover

Star Wars

The Legends of Luke Skywalker - The Manga

2020

phantastisch! Ausgabe 79 book cover

phantastisch! Ausgabe 79

2020

Mono no Aware book cover

Mono no Aware

2015

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año VIII

2020

Seven Birthdays book cover

Seven Birthdays

2016

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año II

2014

Summer Reading book cover

Summer Reading

2012

Le Regard book cover

Le Regard

2014

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 book cover

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

2019

Speaking Bones book cover

Speaking Bones

2022

Best of Apex Magazine book cover

Best of Apex Magazine

Volume 1

2016

Beast Within 4 book cover

Beast Within 4

Gears & Growls

2014

Relics, Wrecks, & Ruins book cover

Relics, Wrecks, & Ruins

2021

Drowned Worlds book cover

Drowned Worlds

2016

The Plague book cover

The Plague

2013

Star Wars book cover

Star Wars

2017

Staying Behind book cover

Staying Behind

2011

Die Götter von Dara book cover

Die Götter von Dara

Seidenkrieger

2016

All That We See or Seem book cover

All That We See or Seem

2025

Toutes les saveurs book cover

Toutes les saveurs

2012

Reborn book cover

Reborn

2014

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 6, March 2020 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 6, March 2020

2020

Broken Stars book cover

Broken Stars

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

2019

Love, Death and Robots book cover

Love, Death and Robots

The Official Anthology: Volume One

2021

A la deriva en el mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos book cover

A la deriva en el mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos

2015

The Man Who Ended History book cover

The Man Who Ended History

A Documentary

2011

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año IV

2016

Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition book cover

Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition

2015

The Cleaners book cover

The Cleaners

2020

Heirs of the Singularity book cover

Heirs of the Singularity

2017

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 52, January 2011 book cover

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 52, January 2011

2011

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año VI

2018

Invisible Planets book cover

Invisible Planets

Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

2016

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories book cover

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

2016

The Anderson Project book cover

The Anderson Project

2014

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