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Ken Liu

Award-Winning Author and Translator of Speculative Fiction

Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings (2015), is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty. It won the Locus Best First Novel Award and was a Nebula finalist. He subsequently published the second volume in the series, The Wall of Storms (2016) as well as a collection of short stories, ...

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Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places.

Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings (2015), is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty. It won the Locus Best First Novel Award and was a Nebula finalist. He subsequently published the second volume in the series, The Wall of Storms (2016) as well as a collection of short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016). He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017).

In addition to his original fiction, Ken is also the translator of numerous literary and genre works from Chinese to English. His translation of The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015, the first translated novel ever to receive that honor. He also translated the third volume in Liu Cixin’s series, Death’s End (2016) and edited the first English-language anthology of contemporary Chinese science fiction, Invisible Planets (2016).

He lives with his family near Boston.

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An Evening With Ken Liu
Ken Liu reads from his commissioned short story, “A Brief and Inaccurate but True Account of the Origin of Living Books,” from the Tales of Our Time exhibition catalogue, and other texts inspired by works on view in the exhibition

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5XhkTeHjk

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The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)
The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty Book 2)
The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty Book 2)
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Legends of Luke Skywalker
Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Legends of Luke Skywalker

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