IFWG Publishing Australia’s e-zine SQ Mag offers up the best of 2014 with their annual anthology. Star Quake pays homage to all the major genres of speculative fiction with work from writers all over the world. Contents: Hunting the Sky Gods by Meryl Stenhouse Inside Ferndale by Lee Murray Stills by Jeremy C. Shipp Shutterblind by Jackie Neel Tread Upon the Brittle Shell by Rhoads Brazos The Darkness in Clara by Alan Baxter Eleanor Atkins is Dead and her House is Boarded Up by Kaaron Warren Chasing the Storm by S.G. Larner Girl in the Glass Bottle by Brian G. Ross Like Bread by Patricia Russo Running Shoes by Ken Liu The Bush Bride of Badgery Hollow by Angie Rega The Tyranny Of Distance by Sean Williams How Far Will You Go by Carl Alves Black Smoker Hero by Rachael Acks Butterfly Knife by Recle Vibal Bones by Michelle Jager Keeping an Open Mind by Dan Rabarts To Brave the Mountains by David Bowles Keep the Water Out by Mitchell Edgeworth
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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.
