Ken Liu
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Ken Liu is an American science-fiction writer, poet, lawyer and computer programmer. His short stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and other magazines, as well as several anthologies, including the Year's Best SF. He is also a translator of science fiction and literary stories from Chinese into English.
"The Paper Menagerie" is the first short story ever to have won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards.
Ken graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and lives in Quincy, Massachusetts. He is married to Lisa Tang Liu; they have two daughters.
Awards and Honors
- 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"
- 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"
- 2012 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"
- 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, winner, "The Paper Menagerie"
- 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella, nominee, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"
- 2012 Locus Award for Best Short Story, finalist, "The Paper Menagerie"
- 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Award, finalist, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" and "The Paper Menagerie"
- 2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, Short Form winner, translation from the Chinese of "The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan[1]
Ken Liu's Stories
- "The Perfect Match" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
- "Good Hunting", (online), Strange Horizons, October 9, 2012
- “The Perfect Book”, Analog, December 2012 issue, September 22, 2012
- “The Waves”, Asimov's, December 2012 issue, September 22, 2012
- “Summer Reading”, Daily Science Fiction, September 4, 2012
- “Cutting”, Electric Velocipede, Issue 24, July 30, 2012
- “You’ll Always Have the Burden With You”, In Situ, Dagan Books, July 10, 2012
- “Dear Emily”, The Memory Eater Anthology, July 5, 2012
- “The Silk Merchant”, Apex, Issue 38, July 3, 2012
- “Celestial Bodies”, Nature, June 28, 2012
- “Real Faces”, F&SF, July/August issue, June 22, 2012
- "The Illusionist" (online), Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi, Issue 4, June 2, 2012
- "Mono no aware" The Future is Japanese, May 15, 2012
- "The Tome of Tourmaline" (online), Daily Science Fiction, May 9, 2012
- "The Shadowcrafter", Nine, Issue 1, April 2012
- "Intelligent Design" (online), Schrodinger's Mouse, April, 2012
- "Monkeys" (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, April 19, 2012
- "To the Moon", Fireside, April 17, 2012
- "Exotic Pets" (online), Buzzy Mag, March 25, 2012
- "Memories of My Mother" (online), Daily Science Fiction, March 19, 2012
- "All the Flavors" (online), GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012
- "The Five Elements of the Heart Mind" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, January 24, 2012
- "Maxwell's Demon", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2012
- "The People of Pele", Asimov's, February 2012
- "The Last Summer", 10 Flash, January 2012
- "The Necrocracy", Penumbra, December 2011
- "The Countable", Asimov's, December 2011
- "Justice FAIRBOT", 140 And Counting, edited by Joanne Merriam, December 11, 2011
- "Life Plus Seventy" (online), Kasma SF, November 23, 2011
- "Safe Empathy", Daily Science Fiction, November 21, 2011
- "Staying Behind" (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, October 1, 2011
- "Golden Years in the Paleozoic", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #52, September 2011
- "Real Artists", TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review
- "The Last Seed" (online), Daily Science Fiction, September 26, 2011
- "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary", Panverse Three, edited by Dario Ciriello, September 2011
- "Music of the Spheres", Mirror Shards: Exploring the Edges of Augmented Reality (Volume One), 2011
- "The Box That Eats Memories" (online), Daily Science Fiction, August 10, 2011
- "Hark! Listen to the Animals", The ePocalypse: e-mails at the end, co-written with Lisa Tang Liu, August 2011
- "The Caretaker", Digital Science Fiction, June 2011
- "Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011.
- "Ad Block", Kasma Science Fiction, March 19, 2011
- "The Visit", On the Premises, March 2011 (Issue 13)
- "The Paper Menagerie", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011. Online at io9
- "Simulacrum" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, February 15, 2011
- "To the Stars" (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, co-written with Shelly Li, February 3, 2011
- "The Chase", Every Day Fiction, January 28, 2011
- "Tying Knots" (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2011
- "Saving Face" (online), Crossed Genres, co-written with Shelly Li, January 1, 2011
- "The Letter" (online), Every Day Fiction, December 5, 2010
- "The Literomancer", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2010
- "The Phoenix", On the Premises, July 2010 (Issue 11)
- "Běidǒu (北斗)", The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, May 2010.
- "Single-Bit Error", Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, 2009 (read) (buy).
- "Beneath the Language", On the Premises, July 2007 (Issue 2)
- "State Change", Polyphony 4, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, September 2004.
- "The Algorithms for Love" (online), Strange Horizons, July 2004
- "Gossamer", Writers of the Future, Vol. 19, 2003.
- "Carthaginian Rose", Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology (v. 1), edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa, 2002.
Ken Liu's Stories Translated into Other Languages
- 《爱的算法》("Algorithms for Love"), Chinese-language short story collection, SFW Publishing, September 5, 2012
- 《猴子》(“Monkeys”), Guokr, September 3, 2012
Stories Translated by Ken Liu
- "The Flowers of Shazui" by Chen Qiufan, Interzone (magazine), 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 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
References
External links
- Ken Liu, official website
- Ken Liu's science fiction awards bring global attention to Chinese authors of the genre at China Daily, 2012-10-22
- Interview: Ken Liu, The Asian American Literary Review, August 16th, 2012
- EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ken Liu Talks About Humanistic Fiction and More, SF Signal, February 7th, 2012
- Interview with Ken Liu, Scapezine, January 2012
- Author Spotlight: Ken Liu, Lightspeed Magazine, January 2012
- 140 And Counting, Upper Rubber Boot Books, anthology, December 11, 2011
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- ↑ 2012 Winners. sfftawards.org, abgerufen am 1. Juni 2012.