Ken Liu 刘宇昆
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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. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
Ken is the translator for volumes 1 and 3 of Liu Cixin's SANTI series (The Three-Body Problem and Death's End). He has also translated the short fiction of numerous Chinese authors such as Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia, Xue Yiwei, and many others, winning the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award for Chen Qiufan's "The Fish of Lijiang."
Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, will be published by Saga Press, Simon & Schuster’s new genre fiction imprint, in April 2015. Saga will also publish a collection of his short stories later in the year.
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- The Year of the Rat
- The Endless Farewell
- A Future History of Illness
- The Right to Be Invisible
- Balin
- Goodnight, Melancholy
- Submarines
- Salinger and the Koreans
- Upside-down Sky
- The New Year Train
- The Taxi Driver
- Shenzhen is Located at 22°27’-22°52’ N
- A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight
- The Smog Society (with Carmen Liying Yan)
- The Mao Ghost
- Invisible Planets
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Oil of Angels
- Call Girl
- Taking Care of God
- The Flower of Shazui
- The City of Silence
- The Fish of Lijiang
- Mark Twain Robots
- Coming of the Light
- Security Check
- Preserve Her Memory
- Folding Beijing
- Heat Island
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- Tongtong's Summer
- Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy
- Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse
- The Animal Observers
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge
- What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear
- Valentine’s Day
- Ether (with Carmen Liying Yan)
- The Circle
- Broken Stars
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Article (1)
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