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Goodreads Giveaway of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Thanks to my awesome publisher (Saga Press), there’s a Goodreads giveaway of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories this month! You can enter the drawing here.

My Arisia Schedule

I’ll be attending Arisia this Friday (January 15). Here’s my schedule: “A Special Hour with Ken Liu” / Alcott Fri 4:00 PM (1:15): “Special hour” puts a lot of pressure on me, doesn’t it? Actually, I do have something pretty special planned. I’ll be reading from the following items (all of them unpublished): The new …

The Paper Menagerie and Other Tidbits

The publication date for my debut collection is fast approaching: March 8, to be exact. Besides gathering some of my favorite stories (a few have won some awards, if you care about that sort of thing), this volume also contains a brand new story that I feel is among my best. Other recent news that may …

Announcing the Title for Book II

For most of December I worked on the edits to TGOK 2. Well, since it’s a new year and I’ve turned in my edits, I’m going to announce the title of the sequel: The Wall of Storms (I’ll get a page up for it soon). Like the title to the first book, which can be …

The Translator’s Role

This is one of the finest explanations of a translator’s role I’ve ever read. Click on the image for a zoomed-in view. (Richard Howard’s note to The Little Prince.)

TGOK News and Gift Suggestions

I’m working on the final edits for TGOK II and the book is coming along great. As I mentioned before, official release date is November 2016. The Grace of Kings made it onto B&N SFF blog’s “The Best Science-Fiction & Fantasy of 2015” list as well as NPR Book Editor Petra Mayer’s “Books To Give …

Short Fiction News

I didn’t write many short stories this year (working on TGOK II took up most of my writing time), but I did write a few. One of them is “Article I, Section 8, Clause 11” (of the US Constitution, of course), a story I wrote for the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project. My …

Beautiful Dreamer

Back in 2012, I wrote a flash story called “Memories of My Mother,” which was published by Daily Science Fiction. It’s a tale about a mother who makes a pretty unusual decision to be able to spend more time with her child. It’s very short and won’t take you more than five minutes to read. …

So, This Happened

“The Arab of the Future”

Just bought Riad Sattouf’s new book (it’s just been released in English). I’m looking forward to it. There’s an interesting profile on Sattouf by Adam Shatz in The New Yorker: Sattouf himself seemed to want people to read as little into his work as possible and insisted that his project was to write about his …