Welcome

Here you can find my blog, fiction, and other writings. Click around, and thanks for visiting.

To contact me about my stories or anything else, please email me at ken [AT] kenliu.name.

Recent Publications

  • 5/15/2012, “Mono no aware” is out in The Future Is Japanese (buy paperback or kindle edition).
  • 5/9/2012, “The Tome of Tourmaline” is out at Daily Science Fiction (read).
  • 4/23/2012, “The Shadowcrafter” is out in Nine (TOC).
  • 4/21/2012, “Intelligent Design” is out in Schrodinger’s Mouse (read).
  • 4/20/2012, Italian translation of “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” is out from 40k Books: L’uomo che mise fine alla Storia (Italian Edition) (Buy a copy here).
  • 4/19/2012, my translation of Li Cixin (刘慈欣)’s “Taking Care of God” (《赡养上帝》) is published in Pathlight, an English-language publication of Paper Republic and People’s Literature Magazine (人民文学). You can download a free electronic copy of the magazine here.
  • 4/19/2012, “Monkeys” has been published in Nature (read).
  • 4/10/2012, “To the Moon,” a literary story, is out in Fireside Magazine (read an excerpt and purchase a copy here).

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Recent Sales

  • 5/14/2012, sold “Cutting” to Electric Velocipede.
  • 5/14/2012, sold “The mMod” to Daily Science Fiction.
  • 5/12/2012, sold audio rights to “Golden Years in the Paleozoic” to Toasted Cake podcast.
  • 4/17/2012, sold “The Perfect Book” to Analog Science Fiction & Fact.
  • 4/16/2012, sold “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” to Lightspeed.
  • 4/16/2012, sold audio rights to “The Paper Menagerie” to Escape Pod.
  • 4/12/2012, sold “The Waves” to Asimov’s Science Fiction.
  • 4/10/2012, sold Spanish rights for “The Paper Menagerie” to Terra Nova.

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Other News

  • 5/7/2012, little daughter Miranda Huanyi Liu / 刘寰逸 was born at 6:19 PM, 8 lbs 10 ounces! Mother and daughter are both doing well.
  • 4/17/2012, I’m now represented by Joe Monti of Barry Goldblatt Literary Agency!
  • 4/7/2012, I can hardly believe it. “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” and “The Paper Menagerie” have been nominated for the Hugo Awards! Thank you, everyone, and my hearty congratulations to all the nominees!
  • 3/6/2012, if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can now read the Nebula nominees from F&SF, including my story “The Paper Menagerie,” on the Kindle for free.
  • 2/23/2012, Elias Combarro interviews me for Sense of Wonder (read).
  • 2/22/2012, Haikasoru has announced the TOC for The Future is Japanese. I’m really proud to be in this collection! (read)
  • 2/20/2012, I’m incredibly honored to see my works on the list of Nebula finalists. Thanks you! The stories are: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” and “The Paper Menagerie”.
  • 2/8/2012, Lois Tilton speaks well of my translation of Xia Jia’s “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” and gives it a “recommended.” (read).
  • 2/7/2012, Charles Tan interviews me for SF Signal (read).

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