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Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.

Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. The series is published by Simon & Schuster.

Childhood and career

Liu was born in 1976 in Lanzhou, China. He spent his childhood with his grandparents. His mother, who received her Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States, is a pharmaceutical chemist, while his father is a computer engineer. The family immigrated to the United States when Liu was 11 years old. They lived in California and Stonington, Connecticut before settling in Waterford, Connecticut. Liu graduated from Waterford High School in 1994, where he ran cross-country and track. At Harvard College, he studied English Literature and Computer Science, receiving his A. B. in 1998.

After graduation, Liu worked as a software engineer for Microsoft, and then joined a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He later received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004 and after working as a corporate lawyer, eventually became a high-tech litigation consultant.

Liu began publishing fiction in 2002. His first published work was "Carthaginian Rose", a short story on mind uploading, which was published alongside nine other authors in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1.

Liu has said he wanted to become a writer so he could make stories that “turn values upside down and inside out to gain new perspectives”.

Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings
Ken Liu: The Legends of Luke Skywalker

Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings · Ken Liu: The Legends of Luke Skywalker

After a long career writing and publishing short fiction, Liu turned to epic fantasy novels, starting with The Grace of Kings (2015). He has also written for the Star Wars universe, with The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017).

Cixin Liu · Hao Jingfang · Chen Qiufan · Xia Jia

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem

Along with his original work, Liu has translated the works of multiple Chinese authors into English, including Liu Cixin, Hao Jingfang, Chen Qiufan, and Xia Jia. His translation of The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin helped the book become a best seller to English readers. He has also worked as an editor. While editing the anthology Invisible Planets, Ken Liu translated the stories contained within it from Chinese into English.

Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Some of Liu's work have been adapted into visual media. His short story "Memories of My Mother" was the basis of Beautiful Dreamer (2016) by David Gaddie. His short story "Real Artists" was adapted into the short film Real Artists (2017) by Cameo Wood. His short story "Good Hunting" was adapted into an animated short as part of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots series (2019). Several of the stories in The Hidden Girl and Other Stories were adapted for the animated Pantheon.

Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Liu's short story collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (2020) explores ideas such as tradition and progress, the fallibility of memory, and the essence of what it means to be human.

Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Awards

Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings

Liu's short story "The Paper Menagerie" is the first work of fiction, of any length, to win all of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. In addition, his short story, "Mono no aware" won the 2013 Hugo Award, and his novella "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" was also nominated for a Hugo. The first novel in his The Dandelion Dynasty series, The Grace of Kings, was a 2016 Nebula Award finalist. The novel was the 2016 Locus Award Best First Novel winner.

Cixin Liu

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu: Death's End

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem · Cixin Liu: Death's End

Besides his original work, Liu's translation of Liu Cixin's Chinese language novel The Three-Body Problem (the first in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, making it the first translated novel to have won the award. Liu also translated the third volume of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, Death's End, in 2016, which was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist.

Jonathan Strahan

One of Liu's short stories, "Thoughts and Prayers", is a part of Jonathan Strahan's The Year's Best Science Fiction (2020), Vol 1.

Winner

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories · Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings

  • 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner, "Death's End" by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
  • 2017 Locus Award for Best Collection, winner, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
  • 2016 Locus Award for Best First Novel, winner, The Grace of Kings
  • 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, winner, "The Three-Body Problem (三体)" by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
  • 2015 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, winner, "The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009"
  • 2013 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, winner, "Mono no aware"
  • 2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award for best Translated Novella or Short Story, winner, "Mono no aware"
  • 2013 FantLab's Book of the Year Award for best On-line publication in Small Form', winner, "The Paper Menagerie"
  • 2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, Short Form winner, translation from the Chinese of "The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan
  • 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"
  • 2012 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"
  • 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"

Nominated or finalist

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

  • 2020 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "Thoughts and Prayers"
  • 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel, finalist, Death's End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
  • 2017 World Fantasy Award, nominee, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Best Collection
  • 2015 Locus Award for Best Novella, finalist, "The Regular"
  • 2015 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Regular"
  • 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel, nominee, "The Three-Body Problem (三体)" by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
  • 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Regular"
  • 2014 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, nominee, "A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel"
  • 2014 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel"
  • 2013 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "Mono no aware"
  • 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, nominee, "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
  • 2013 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" and "Mono no aware"
  • 2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, nominee, "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species"
  • 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, nominee, "The Waves"
  • 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "All the Flavors"
  • 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" and "The Paper Menagerie"
  • 2012 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "The Paper Menagerie"
  • 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"
  • 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"

Bibliography

Novels

Ken Liu: The Legends of Luke Skywalker

Ken Liu: The Legends of Luke Skywalker

  • The Legends of Luke Skywalker. Disney LucasFilm Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1-4847-8077-0. Archived from the original on 2020-02-15. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  • The Dandelion Dynasty
Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings
Ken Liu: The Wall of Storms
Ken Liu: The Veiled Throne
Ken Liu: Speaking Bones

Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings · Ken Liu: The Wall of Storms · Ken Liu: The Veiled Throne · Ken Liu: Speaking Bones

  1. The Grace of Kings. Saga Press. 2015. ISBN 9781481424271.
  2. The Wall of Storms. Saga Press. 2016. ISBN 9781481424301.
  3. The Veiled Throne. Saga Press. 2021. ISBN 9781481424332.
  4. Speaking Bones. Saga Press. 2022. ISBN 9781982148973.

Short fiction

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories · Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

  • Invisible Planets, Tor Books, November 2016
  • Broken Stars, Tor Books, February 2019

Mike Resnick · Daniel José Older

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories · Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Title Year First published Collected Notes
Carthaginian Rose 2002 Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1, edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa, 2002.
Gossamer 2003 Writers of the Future, Vol. 19, 2003; reprinted in Semaphore Magazine, March 1, 2011.
The Algorithms for Love 2004 (online) Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine, Strange Horizons, July 2004; reprinted in Issue #4 of International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, July 2012.
State Change 2004 Polyphony 4, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, September 2004; reprinted by Lightspeed, August 2014. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Beneath the Language 2007 (online), On the Premises, July 2007 (Issue 2)
Single-Bit Error 2009 Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, 2009; International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, December 2013;
Beidou 2010 The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, May 2010.
The Phoenix 2010 (online), On the Premises, July 2010 (Issue 11)
The Literomancer 2010 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2010 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novelette
The Letter 2010 (online), Every Day Fiction, December 5, 2010
Saving Face 2011 (online), Crossed Genres, January 1, 2011 co-written with Shelly Li
Tying Knots 2011 (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2011
The Chase 2011 Every Day Fiction, January 28, 2011
To the Stars 2011 (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, , February 3, 2011 co-written with Shelly Li
Simulacrum 2011 (online), Lightspeed Magazine, February 15, 2011 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Paper Menagerie 2011 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Visit 2011 (online), On the Premises, March 2011 (Issue 13)
Ad Block 2011 (online) Archived 2020-04-20 at the Wayback Machine, Kasma SF, March 19, 2011
Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer 2011 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
The Caretaker 2011 Digital Science Fiction, June 2011
Hark! Listen to the Animals 2011 The ePocalypse: e-mails at the end, August 2011; revised Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9, July 2014 co-written with Lisa Tang Liu
The Box That Eats Memories 2011 (online), Daily Science Fiction, August 10, 2011
Music of the Spheres 2011 Mirror Shards: Exploring the Edges of Augmented Reality (Volume One), 2011
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary 2011 Panverse Three, edited by Dario Ciriello, September 2011 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novella
The Last Seed 2011 (online), Daily Science Fiction, September 26, 2011
Real Artists 2011 TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Golden Years in the Paleozoic 2011 Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #52, September 2011
Staying Behind 2011 (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, October 1, 2011 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
The Countable 2011 Asimov's, December 2011
Safe Empathy 2011 Daily Science Fiction, November 21, 2011
Life Plus Seventy 2011 (online), Kasma SF, November 23, 2011 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Justice Fairbot 2011 140 And Counting, edited by Joanne Merriam, December 11, 2011
The Necrocracy 2011 Penumbra, December 2011
The Last Summer 2012 10 Flash, January 2012
The People of Pele 2012 Asimov's, February 2012
Maxwell's Demon 2012 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2012 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
The Five Elements of the Heart Mind 2012 (online), Lightspeed Magazine, January 24, 2012
All the Flavors 2012 (online), GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novella
Memories of My Mother 2012 (online), Daily Science Fiction, March 19, 2012 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Exotic Pets 2012 Buzzy Mag, March 25, 2012
To the Moon 2012 Fireside, April 17, 2012
Monkeys 2012 (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, April 19, 2012
Intelligent Design 2012 (online) Archived 2018-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, Schrodinger's Mouse, April 2012
The Shadowcrafter 2012 Nine, Issue 1, April 2012
The Tome of Tourmaline 2012 (online), Daily Science Fiction, May 9, 2012
Mono no aware 2012 The Future is Japanese, May 15, 2012; republished (online), Lightspeed Magazine, June 2013 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Illusionist 2012 (online), Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi, Issue 4, June 2, 2012
Real Faces 2012 F&SF, July/August issue, June 22, 2012
Celestial Bodies 2012 Nature, June 28, 2012
The Silk Merchant 2012 Apex, Issue 38, July 3, 2012
Ask Emily 2012 The Memory Eater Anthology, July 5, 2012
You'll Always Have the Burden With You 2012 In Situ, Dagan Books, July 10, 2012; republished, Perihelion Science Fiction, December 2013
Cutting 2012 Electric Velocipede, Issue 24, July 30, 2012 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species 2012 Lightspeed, Issue 27, August 7, 2012 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Arc 2012 F&SF, September/October issue, September 2012
Summer Reading 2012 Daily Science Fiction, September 4, 2012
The Waves 2012 Liu, Ken (December 2012). "The Waves". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (12): 38–51. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novelette
The Perfect Book 2012 Analog, December 2012 issue, September 22, 2012
Drilling 2012 Kasma SF, October 2012
Pattern Recognition 2012 Diverse Energies, edited by Tobias Buckell and Joe Monti, October 2012.
The Message 2012 Interzone Issue 242, September 2012. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Good Hunting 2012 (online), Strange Horizons, October 9, 2012 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Tides 2012 Daily Science Fiction, November 1, 2012.
Always Here 2012 Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 31, November 2012
The Postman 2012 Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 31, November 2012
The Perfect Match 2012 (online), Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novelette
Love Thy Neighbors 2012 Unidentified Funny Objects, December 16, 2012
The Messenger's Tale 2012 Aoife's Kiss, Issue 43, Winter 2012/2013 issue, December 2012
A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel 2013 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2013 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The mMod 2013 Daily Science Fiction, January 18, 2013.
The Veiled Shanghai 2013 Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen, February 26, 2013.
The Oracle 2013 Liu, Ken (Apr–May 2013). "The Oracle". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (4&5): 144–152.
Linger 2013 Daily Science Fiction, March 12, 2013
The Clean War 2013 Buzzy Mag, March 15, 2013 co-written with Shelly Li
How Do You Know If a Fish Is Happy? 2013 Fish, March 2013 from Dagan Books
Build-A-Dolly 2013 Apex, April 2, 2013
The Shape of Thought 2013 The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt, April 2013.
Sungrazers 2013 Kasma SF, May 2013
Effect and Cause 2013 Galaxy’s Edge, Issue 2, May 2013.
The Plague 2013 Nature, May 16, 2013
The City of Chrysanthemum 2013 Daily Science Fiction, June 12, 2013
Prosopagnosia 2013 Drabblecast, June 30, 2013
Echoes in the Dark 2013 Mythic Delirium, Issue 0.1, July-September 2013
The Litigatrix 2013 GigaNotoSaurus, August 2013
Nova Verba, Mundus Novus 2013 Daily Science Fiction, August 13, 2013
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King 2013 (online), Lightspeed Magazine, August 2013 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novelette
The Call of the Pancake Factory 2013 Drabblecast, August 23, 2013; reprinted in The Cackle of Cthulhu, edited by Alex Shvartsman.
The Journal 2013 Fireside, Issue 5, September 12, 2013
The MSG Golem 2013 Unidentified Funny Objects 2, edited by Alex Shvartsman, October 2013
Ghost Days 2013 Lightspeed, October 22, 2013 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Novelette
Here-and-Now 2013 Kasma SF, November 1, 2013
Before and After 2013 Apex, December 2013
The Clockwork Soldier 2014 (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2014
Second Chance 2014 (online), Nature, January 2014
The Plantimal 2014 Resnick, Mike & Ken Liu (March 2014). "The Plantimal". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (3): 13–24. co-written with Mike Resnick
The Reborn 2014 (online), Tor.com, January 2014 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Novelette
What Is Expected of a Wedding Host 2014 (online), Daily Science Fiction, February 2014
None Owns the Air 2014 Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014
The Gods Will Not Be Chained 2014 The End is Nigh (Book I of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, March 2014 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
The Ten Suns 2014 Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse, March 2014
Lecture 14: Concerning the Event Cloaking Device and Practical Applications Thereof 2014 (online), Cosmos, April 2014
Knotting Grass, Holding Ring 2014 Long Hidden, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, May 2014
What I Assume You Shall Assume 2014 Dead Man's Hand, edited by John Joseph Adams, May 2014
Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon 2014 (online), Kaleidoscope, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, August 2014
In the Loop 2014 War Stories, edited by Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates, August 2014
Homo Florensis 2014 Solaris Rising 3, August 2014
Running Shoes 2014 (online), SQ Mag, Issue 16, September 2014
The Gods Will Not Be Slain 2014 The End is Now (Book II of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, September 2014 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
The Regular 2014 Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke, September 2014 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Novella
The Ussuri Bear 2014 (online), Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls, edited by Jennifer Brozek, October 2014
Saboteur 2014 Liu, Ken (December 2014). "Saboteur". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (12): 68–70.
Presence 2014 (online), Uncanny, November/December 2014
The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 2014 (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2014
The Dust Garden 2014 SFComet, December 2014
Cassandra 2015 Clarkesworld, March 1, 2015.
The Gods Have Not Died in Vain 2015 The End Has Come (Book III of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, May 1, 2015 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Crystal 2015 Daily Science Fiction, October 15, 2015
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 2015 War Stories From the Future, edited by August Cole, November 2015.
Compatibility 2015 Ecotones, December 2015.
White Hempen Sleeves 2016 After the Fall, edited by Jaym Gates, 2016
Of Trees 2016 Part of Herman Chong's exhibit "Ifs, Ands, or Buts" (January 23 to May 3, 2016 at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai)
An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition 2016 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, March 8, 2016 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Snow Train 2016 Genius Loci: the Spirit of Place, edited by Jaym Gates, June 2016
Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit — Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts 2016 Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, edited by Jonathan Strahan, 2016. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
A Brief And Inaccurate But True Account of the Origin of Living Books 2016 Tales of Our Time, November 4, 2016.
Seven Birthdays 2016 Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan, November 8, 2016 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Shanghai in 48 Hours, a Weekend Itinerary for International Visitors by Roaming Planets Guides, 2116 2017 Part of the Shanghai Project, an exhibit by the Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Museum, April 22, 2017; reprinted in Deep Signal, June 2019.
Ticket 2017 Stanford Anthology for Youth, June 2017.
An Open Letter to the Sentient AI Who Has Announced Its Intention to Take Over the Earth 2017 Unidentified Funny Objects 6, edited by Alex Shvartsman, October 2017
The Sith of Datawork 2017 From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars), October 3, 2017
The Hidden Girl 2017 The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois, October 2017 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Novelette
Alter 2017 The Eugene Studio, Japan, published on November 20, 2017; reprinted in subTerrain, 2020.
The Explainer 2017 CBN Weekly, published on December 21, 2017; English version published in Lightspeed's special 100th issue, September 2018.
Quality Time 2018 Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien, January 2018 Novelette
Cosmic Spring 2018 Lightspeed, March 15, 2018
The Magic Paintbrush 2018 Jali, edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey for Audible, April 2018
Byzantine Empathy 2018 MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush, May 2018 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Novelette
The Trustless 2018 Wired, December 17, 2018
Thoughts and Prayers 2019 Slate, January 26, 2019 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Love's Mirror 2019 Deep Signal, June 2019
BookSavr 2019 F&SF, September/October 2019.
The Moon Carver 2019 The Other Animals, Audible Original edited by Rachel Hamburg, November 14, 2019.
How to Survive the Next Science Fictional Disaster, A Guide for the Wise 2020 L'Uomo, February 2020.
How to Build a Dragon at the End of Time 2020 Sub-Q, February 2020 Interactive fiction
Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard 2020 The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, February 25, 2020. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Novelette
Uma 2020 Avatars, Inc, from XPrize, edited by Ann VanderMeer, March 13, 2020.
Idols 2020 Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan, March 17, 2020.
A Whisper of Blue 2020 The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan, July 7, 2020 Novelette
50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know 2020 Uncanny, November 3, 2020
The Cleaners 2020 Liu, Ken (2 December 2020). "A Time to Reflect". kenliu.substack.com. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
Excerpt from Theuth, an Oral History of Work in the Age of Machine-Assisted Cognition 2021 Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories, Bloomsbury Press, edited by Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel, January 2021.
The Armies of Those I Love 2021 Audible Original (February 25, 2021) Novella
Jaunt 2021 Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, edited by Gideon Lichfield, published by MIT Press (part of the Twelve Tomorrows series), March 2021.
Evaluative Soliloquies 2022 Part of Google’s experimental AI Wordcraft Writers Workshop, November 2, 2022.
Timekeeper's Symphony 2022 Clarkesworld, September 2022
Invasive Species 2023 Newsweek Japan (Japanese translation), February 7, 2023.
Collaboration? 2023 Uncanny, January 3, 2023 co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim
The Emperor’s New Servers 2023 The Oracle, Story Summit 2022, hosted by Alexandria Labs, March 27, 2023.
The Edges of Wilderness 2023 The Continental Literary Magazine, April 18, 2023.
Good Spells 2023 Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan, August 1 2023.
The Passing of the Dragon 2023 Tor.com, September 13, 2023
Good Stories 2023 The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI, edited by Alex Shvartsman, November 2023.

Translations

Lao-tze · Hao Jingfang · Xia Jia

  • "Dao De Jing" by Laozi, May 2023
  • "Vagabonds" by Hao Jingfang, April 2020
  • "Waste Tide" by Chen Qiufan, April 2019
  • "Fields of Gold" by Liu Cixin, May 2018
  • "The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales" by Fei Dao, [1], Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2017
  • "The Snow of Jinyang" by Zhang Ran, [2],Clarkesworld Magazine, June 2016
  • "The Flowers of Shazui" by Chen Qiufan, Interzone, November 2012
  • "Taking Care of God" by Liu Cixin (online), Pathlight, March 2012
  • "A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2012
  • "The City of Silence" by Ma Boyong
  • "The Mark Twain Robots" by Ma Boyong, TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review
  • "The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2011
  • "Gathered in Translation", an essay on the process and subtleties of translating Chinese SF to English, and the reverse: online at Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2013
Remembrance of Earth's Past Series

Cixin Liu

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu: Death's End

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem · Cixin Liu: Death's End

  • Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, Tor Books, November 2014 (originally the Chinese language novel Three Body, 三体, 2008, by Liu Cixin)
  • Book 3: Death's End, Tor Books, September 2016 by Liu Cixin (originally the Chinese language novel Death's End, 死神永生, 2010 by Liu Cixin)
  • Book 4: The Redemption of Time, Tor Books, 2019 by Baoshu (originally a Chinese fanfic by Li Jun that was regularized by the original publisher Chongqing Press and series creator Cixin Liu; and published in 2011)

Liu's works in translation

Many of Liu's short stories have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, and multiple other languages and published in short stories collections:

Chinese
  • 爱的算法 ("Algorithms for Love and Others"), published by SFW Publishing, September 5, 2012
  • 思维的形状 ("The Shape of Thought and Others"), published by Tsinghua University Press, November 11, 2014
  • 杀敌算法 ("In the Loop and Others"), published by SFW Publishing, March, 2015
  • 奇点遗民 ("Staying behind"),published by CITIC, 2017
Japanese
  • 紙の動物園, published by Hayakawa, edited by 古沢嘉通 (Yoshimichi Furusawa), April 2015
French
  • La Ménagerie de papier ("The Paper Menagerie") published by Editions du Bélial, edited by Ellen Herzfeld and Dominique Martel, 2015.
  • Jardins de poussière ("Dust gardens") published by Editions du Bélial, edited by Ellen Herzfeld and Dominique Martel, 2019.
Spanish
  • El zoo de papel y otros relatos ("The Paper Menagerie") published by Runas, Alianza Editorial, edited by María Pilar San Román Navarro, 2017.

Filmography

Television

Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

The 2022 AMC+ series Pantheon is an animated version based on Liu's sci-fi short stories "The Gods Will Not Be Chained", "The Gods Will Not Be Slain", "The Gods Have Not Died in Vain", "Staying Behind" and "Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer" from the short fictions collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories.

External links

Jonathan Clements