Ken Liu

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”.
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).
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.
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).
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
The Dandelion Dynasty
Speaking Bones. Saga Press. June 2022.
Short fiction
Collections
Anthologies (edited)
Invisible Planets, Tor Books, November 2016
Broken Stars, Tor Books, February 2019
Short stories
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|Carthaginian Rose
|2002
|Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1, edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa, 2002.
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|Gossamer
|2003
|Writers of the Future, Vol. 19, 2003; reprinted in Semaphore Magazine, March 1, 2011.
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|The Algorithms for Love
|2004
|(online) , Strange Horizons, July 2004; reprinted in Issue #4 of International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, July 2012.
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|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|
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|Beneath the Language
|2007
|(online), On the Premises, July 2007 (Issue 2)
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|Single-Bit Error
|2009
|Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, 2009; International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, December 2013;
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|Beidou
|2010
|The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, May 2010.
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|The Phoenix
|2010
|(online), On the Premises, July 2010 (Issue 11)
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|The Literomancer
|2010
|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2010
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novelette
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|The Letter
|2010
|(online), Every Day Fiction, December 5, 2010
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|Saving Face
|2011
|(online), Crossed Genres, January 1, 2011
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|co-written with Shelly Li
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|Tying Knots
|2011
|(online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2011
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|The Chase
|2011
|Every Day Fiction, January 28, 2011
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|To the Stars
|2011
|(online), Nature's * "Futures" feature February 3, 2011
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|co-written with Shelly Li
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|Simulacrum
|2011
|(online), Lightspeed Magazine, February 15, 2011
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|
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|The Paper Menagerie
|2011
|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011.
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|
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|The Visit
|2011
|(online), On the Premises, March 2011 (Issue 13)
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|Ad Block
|2011
|(online) , Kasma SF, March 19, 2011
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|Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer
|2011
|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011.
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|The Caretaker
|2011
|Digital Science Fiction, June 2011
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|Hark! Listen to the Animals
|2011
|The ePocalypse: e-mails at the end, August 2011; revised Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9, July 2014
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|co-written with Lisa Tang Liu
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|The Box That Eats Memories
|2011
|(online), Daily Science Fiction, August 10, 2011
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|Music of the Spheres
|2011
|Mirror Shards: Exploring the Edges of Augmented Reality (Volume One), 2011
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|The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
|2011
|Panverse Three, edited by Dario Ciriello, September 2011
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novella
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|The Last Seed
|2011
|(online), Daily Science Fiction, September 26, 2011
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|Real Artists
|2011
|TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|Golden Years in the Paleozoic
|2011
|Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #52, September 2011
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|Staying Behind
|2011
|(online), Clarkesworld Magazine, October 1, 2011
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|The Countable
|2011
|Asimov's, December 2011
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|Safe Empathy
|2011
|Daily Science Fiction, November 21, 2011
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|Life Plus Seventy
|2011
|(online), Kasma SF, November 23, 2011
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|Justice Fairbot
|2011
|140 And Counting, edited by Joanne Merriam, December 11, 2011
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|The Necrocracy
|2011
|Penumbra, December 2011
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|The Last Summer
|2012
|10 Flash, January 2012
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|The People of Pele
|2012
|Asimov's, February 2012
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|Maxwell's Demon
|2012
|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2012
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|The Five Elements of the Heart Mind
|2012
|(online), Lightspeed Magazine, January 24, 2012
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|All the Flavors
|2012
|(online), GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novella
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|Memories of My Mother
|2012
|(online), Daily Science Fiction, March 19, 2012
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|Exotic Pets
|2012
|Buzzy Mag, March 25, 2012
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|To the Moon
|2012
|Fireside, April 17, 2012
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|Monkeys
|2012
|(online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, April 19, 2012
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|Intelligent Design
|2012
|(online) , Schrodinger's Mouse, April 2012
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|The Shadowcrafter
|2012
|Nine, Issue 1, April 2012
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|The Tome of Tourmaline
|2012
|(online), Daily Science Fiction, May 9, 2012
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|Mono no aware
|2012
|The Future is Japanese, May 15, 2012; republished (online), Lightspeed Magazine, June 2013
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|
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|The Illusionist
|2012
|(online), Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi, Issue 4, June 2, 2012
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|Real Faces
|2012
|F&SF, July/August issue, June 22, 2012
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|Celestial Bodies
|2012
|Nature, June 28, 2012
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|The Silk Merchant
|2012
|Apex, Issue 38, July 3, 2012
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|Ask Emily
|2012
|The Memory Eater Anthology, July 5, 2012
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|You'll Always Have the Burden With You
|2012
|In Situ, Dagan Books, July 10, 2012; republished, Perihelion Science Fiction, December 2013
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|Cutting
|2012
|Electric Velocipede, Issue 24, July 30, 2012
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
|2012
|Lightspeed, Issue 27, August 7, 2012
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|
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|Arc
|2012
|F&SF, September/October issue, September 2012
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|Summer Reading
|2012
|Daily Science Fiction, September 4, 2012
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|The Waves
|2012
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|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novelette
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|The Perfect Book
|2012
|Analog, December 2012 issue, September 22, 2012
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|Drilling
|2012
|Kasma SF, October 2012
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|Pattern Recognition
|2012
|Diverse Energies, edited by Tobias Buckell and Joe Monti, October 2012.
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|The Message
|2012
|Interzone Issue 242, September 2012.
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|Good Hunting
|2012
|(online), Strange Horizons, October 9, 2012
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|
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|The Tides
|2012
|Daily Science Fiction, November 1, 2012.
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|Always Here
|2012
|Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 31, November 2012
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|The Postman
|2012
|Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 31, November 2012
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|The Perfect Match
|2012
|(online), Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novelette
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|Love Thy Neighbors
|2012
|Unidentified Funny Objects, December 16, 2012
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|The Messenger's Tale
|2012
|Aoife's Kiss, Issue 43, Winter 2012/2013 issue, December 2012
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|A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel
|2013
|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2013
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|
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|The mMod
|2013
|Daily Science Fiction, January 18, 2013.
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|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.
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|The Oracle
|2013
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|Linger
|2013
|Daily Science Fiction, March 12, 2013
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|The Clean War
|2013
|Buzzy Mag, March 15, 2013
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|co-written with Shelly Li
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|How Do You Know If a Fish Is Happy?
|2013
|Fish, March 2013 from Dagan Books
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|Build-A-Dolly
|2013
|Apex, April 2, 2013
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|The Shape of Thought
|2013
|The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt, April 2013.
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|Sungrazers
|2013
|Kasma SF, May 2013
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|Effect and Cause
|2013
|Galaxy’s Edge, Issue 2, May 2013.
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|The Plague
|2013
|Nature, May 16, 2013
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|The City of Chrysanthemum
|2013
|Daily Science Fiction, June 12, 2013
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|Prosopagnosia
|2013
|Drabblecast, June 30, 2013
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|Echoes in the Dark
|2013
|Mythic Delirium, Issue 0.1, July-September 2013
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|The Litigatrix
|2013
|GigaNotoSaurus, August 2013
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|Nova Verba, Mundus Novus
|2013
|Daily Science Fiction, August 13, 2013
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|The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
|2013
|(online), Lightspeed Magazine, August 2013
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novelette
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|The Call of the Pancake Factory
|2013
|Drabblecast, August 23, 2013; reprinted in The Cackle of Cthulhu, edited by Alex Shvartsman.
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|The Journal
|2013
|Fireside, Issue 5, September 12, 2013
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|The MSG Golem
|2013
|Unidentified Funny Objects 2, edited by Alex Shvartsman, October 2013
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|Ghost Days
|2013
|Lightspeed, October 22, 2013
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|Novelette
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|Here-and-Now
|2013
|Kasma SF, November 1, 2013
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|Before and After
|2013
|Apex, December 2013
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|The Clockwork Soldier
|2014
|(online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2014
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|Second Chance
|2014
|(online), Nature, January 2014
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|The Plantimal
|2014
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|co-written with Mike Resnick
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|The Reborn
|2014
|(online), Tor.com, January 2014
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|Novelette
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|What Is Expected of a Wedding Host
|2014
|(online), Daily Science Fiction, February 2014
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|None Owns the Air
|2014
|Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014
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|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|
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|The Ten Suns
|2014
|Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse, March 2014
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|Lecture 14: Concerning the Event Cloaking Device and Practical Applications Thereof
|2014
|(online), Cosmos, April 2014
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|Knotting Grass, Holding Ring
|2014
|Long Hidden, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, May 2014
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|What I Assume You Shall Assume
|2014
|Dead Man's Hand, edited by John Joseph Adams, May 2014
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|Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon
|2014
|(online), Kaleidoscope, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, August 2014
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|In the Loop
|2014
|War Stories, edited by Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates, August 2014
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|Homo Florensis
|2014
|Solaris Rising 3, August 2014
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|Running Shoes
|2014
|(online), SQ Mag, Issue 16, September 2014
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|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|
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|The Regular
|2014
|Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke, September 2014
|The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories|Novella
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|The Ussuri Bear
|2014
|(online), Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls, edited by Jennifer Brozek, October 2014
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|Saboteur
|2014
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|Presence
|2014
|(online), Uncanny, November/December 2014
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|The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009
|2014
|(online), Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2014
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|The Dust Garden
|2014
|SFComet, December 2014
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|Cassandra
|2015
|Clarkesworld, March 1, 2015.
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|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|
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|Crystal
|2015
|Daily Science Fiction, October 15, 2015
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|Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
|2015
|War Stories From the Future, edited by August Cole, November 2015.
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|Compatibility
|2015
|Ecotones, December 2015.
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|White Hempen Sleeves
|2016
|After the Fall, edited by Jaym Gates, 2016
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|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)
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|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|
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|The Snow Train
|2016
|Genius Loci: the Spirit of Place, edited by Jaym Gates, June 2016
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|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|
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|A Brief And Inaccurate But True Account of the Origin of Living Books
|2016
|Tales of Our Time, November 4, 2016.
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|Seven Birthdays
|2016
|Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan, November 8, 2016
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|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.
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|Ticket
|2017
|Stanford Anthology for Youth, June 2017.
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|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
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|The Sith of Datawork
|2017
|From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars), October 3, 2017
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|The Hidden Girl
|2017
|The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois, October 2017
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|Novelette
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|Alter
|2017
|The Eugene Studio, Japan, published on November 20, 2017; reprinted in subTerrain, 2020.
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|The Explainer
|2017
|CBN Weekly, published on December 21, 2017; English version published in Lightspeed's special 100th issue, September 2018.
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|Quality Time
|2018
|Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien, January 2018
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|Novelette
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|Cosmic Spring
|2018
|Lightspeed, March 15, 2018
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|The Magic Paintbrush
|2018
|Jali, edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey for Audible, April 2018
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|Byzantine Empathy
|2018
|MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush, May 2018
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|Novelette
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|The Trustless
|2018
|Wired, December 17, 2018
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|Thoughts and Prayers
|2019
|Slate, January 26, 2019
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|
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|Love's Mirror
|2019
|Deep Signal, June 2019
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|BookSavr
|2019
|F&SF, September/October 2019.
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|The Moon Carver
|2019
|The Other Animals, Audible Original edited by Rachel Hamburg, November 14, 2019.
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|How to Survive the Next Science Fictional Disaster, A Guide for the Wise
|2020
|L'Uomo, February 2020.
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|How to Build a Dragon at the End of Time
|2020
|Sub-Q, February 2020
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|Interactive fiction
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|Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard
|2020
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, February 25, 2020.
|The Hidden Girl and Other Stories|Novelette
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|Uma
|2020
|Avatars, Inc, from XPrize, edited by Ann VanderMeer, March 13, 2020.
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|Idols
|2020
|Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan, March 17, 2020.
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|A Whisper of Blue
|2020
|The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan, July 7, 2020
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|Novelette
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|50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know
|2020
|Uncanny, November 3, 2020
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|The Cleaners
|2020
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|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.
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|The Armies of Those I Love
|2021
|Audible Original (February 25, 2021)
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|Novella
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|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.
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|Evaluative Soliloquies
|2022
|Part of Google’s experimental AI Wordcraft Writers Workshop, November 2, 2022.
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|Timekeeper's Symphony
|2022
|Clarkesworld, September 2022
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|Invasive Species
|2023
|Newsweek Japan (Japanese translation), February 7, 2023.
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|Collaboration?
|2023
|Uncanny, January 3, 2023
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|co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim
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|The Emperor’s New Servers
|2023
|The Oracle, Story Summit 2022, hosted by Alexandria Labs, March 27, 2023.
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|The Edges of Wilderness
|2023
|The Continental Literary Magazine, April 18, 2023.
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|Good Spells
|2023
|Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan, August 1 2023.
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|The Passing of the Dragon
|2023
|Tor.com, September 13, 2023
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Translations
"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 Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2017
"The Snow of Jinyang" by Zhang Ran 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
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
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.
References
External links
" Liu, Ken" (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; by Jonathan Clements)
Ken Liu profile, NY Times Dec. 3, 2019. Focuses on his translations of Chinese SF.
1976 births
Living people
American male novelists
American male poets
American male short story writers
American science fiction writers
American short story writers
American speculative fiction translators
American writers of Chinese descent
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Asimov's Science Fiction people
Chinese–English translators
Harvard College alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Hugo Award-winning writers
Nebula Award winners
Sidewise Award winners
World Fantasy Award-winning writers