Other News

  • 5/8/2013, “Mono no aware” is a Locus Award finalist!
  • 3/30/2013, “Mono no aware” has been nominated for a Hugo!
  • 3/25/2013, Luc Reid interviews me for Strange Horizons (read).
  • 2/2013, I’ve been nominated for the Nebulas! Thank you so much, everyone! Read more about it here.
  • 1/5/2013, my guest blog post on translation is up at Ksenia Anske’s site (read).

  • 11/30/2012, Jamie Todd Rubin interviews me for InterGalactic Medicine Show (read).
  • 11/7/2012, it’s true. I’ll be translating Volume One of Liu Cixin’s 《三体》(SANTI — official title TBD) into English. Volume Two and Three will be translated by famed translators Joel Martinsen and Eric Abrahamsen. I’m really excited by the opportunity!
  • 11/4/2012, I’m incredibly honored to receive the World Fantasy Award for “The Paper Menagerie.” Thank you, everyone!
  • 10/23/2012, China Daily profiles me (read).
  • 9/3/2012, Anaea Lay interviews me so that I can tell lies (read).
  • 9/3/2012, I went to Worldcon and won a Hugo (for “The Paper Menagerie”) and got to meet tons of cool people. It was amazing! Thank you so much, everyone, for voting for me and congratulating me!
  • 8/21/2012, my Worldcon schedule has been finalized. Hope to see you there!
  • 8/17/2012, the wonderful Betsy Huang interviews me for the Asian American Literary Review (read).
  • 8/8/2012, I’m honored to see that “The Paper Menagerie” is on the World Fantasy Awards ballot for short story. It’s especially cool to be nominated along with Tim Powers, who taught me how to write almost a decade ago.
  • 7/21/2012, my translation of Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan)’s “The Fish of Lijiang” has won the SFF Translation Awards.
  • 7/14-15, 2012, I’ll be at Readercon. I’m scheduled to be on a panel on the future of copyright at 2:00 on Saturday and then a reading for Athena Andreadis’s new anthology at 2:00 on Sunday. Please come by and say hi.
  • 6/7/2012, Patrick Hester of SF Signal interviews me (listen). I had a great time doing this interview. Thanks, Patrick!
  • 5/29/2012, Zack Jernigan’s roundtable interview on Writing About Race on Science Fiction and Fantasy, with David Anthony Durham, Aliette de Bodard, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and myself, is up at SF Signal (read part 1, part 2).
  • 5/22/2012, I’m incredibly honored to find that “The Paper Menagerie” and “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” made it onto the Sturgeon Award Shortlist. I can’t believe I’m listed among so many great writers. Congrats and good luck to all the finalists!
  • 5/21/2012, “The Fish of Lijiang” (《丽江的鱼儿们》), by Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆), translated by me for Clarkesworld, is a finalist in the SF & F Translation Awards.
  • 5/19/2012, “The Paper Menagerie” won the Nebula for best short story! Congrats to all the Nebula nominees and winners. I’m honored to be among you.
  • 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.
  • 5/1/2012, I’m honored to see that “The Paper Menagerie” is a Locus Award finalist.
  • 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).
  • 1/24/2012, Christie Yant of Lightspeed interviews me (read).
  • 12/14/2011, Fireside interviews me (read). Please consider supporting the magazine getting off the ground by making a pledge.
  • 12/2/2011, TRSF is now available for the kindle.
  • 11/23/2011, Slava Heretz and I interview each other (here and here).
  • 11/19/2011, PickPix Tot now available on the Amazon App Store (check it out).
  • 11/10/2011, my wife and I have released an Android version of PickPix Tot, a fun picture card game for toddlers. We hope you like it.
  • 11/08/2011, Dagan Books announced the TOC for FISH. I’m the last last story in the anthology. (TOC)
  • 10/22/2011, my wife and I have released a new iPhone/iPad app: PickPix Chinese. It’s a fun picture card game for teaching children Chinese. Hope you like it.
  • 9/30/2011, I’ve put the essay that was the basis for my Readercon panel talk about ebooks online. Read it here.
  • 8/26/2011, Panverse Three, which contains my novella, “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary,” is now available for the Amazon Kindle.
  • 8/24/2011, Steven Silver reviews Panverse Three for Tangent and writes favorably of “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary.” (read)
  • 8/24/2011, Carrie Cuinn interviews me. (read)
  • 7/25/2011, I’ve posted “The Phoenix” on my site.
  • 7/24/2011, I’ve posted “Beidou,” a silkpunk tale set during the Seven Years War, on my site.
  • 7/23/2011, my wife and I have launched Crimson Hammer Software and our first iPhone/iPad app (a picture card game for toddlers) is now available in the App Store.
  • 7/16-17/2011, I’ll be at Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts. On Saturday at 11:00 AM I’ll be on a panel on “Book Design and Typography in the Digital Era.” Please stop by and say hi.
  • 7/15/2011, Editor Thomas Carpenter has announced the Gold Award for submissions to the Mirror Shards anthology. I’m really honored that “Music of the Spheres” was picked.
  • 7/12/2011, Black Moon Books has announced the TOC for Mirror Shards, an anthology on the technology of augmented reality in its many forms. Melissa Yuan-Innes, who has been my TOC-mate on several anthologies now, is also in it.
  • 7/11/2011, Panverse Publishing has released an excerpt from my novella, “The Man Who Ended History,” to be published as part of Panverse Three.
  • 6/2/2011, The Dragon and the Stars is a finalist for the Prix Aurora Awards.
  • 5/27/2011, Geoff Hart reviewed “The Paper Menagerie”.
  • 4/29/2011, Bob Blough of Tangent reviewed “Simulacrum”.
  • 4/29/2011, Lois Tilton reviewed “Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer”, giving it a recommendation.
  • 4/20/2011, Dagan Books has unveiled the cover art for IN SITU, and it’s based on my story, “You’ll Always Have the Burden With You.”
  • 4/18/2011, Dagan Books interviews me.
  • 4/3/2011, F&SF interviewed me about “The Paper Menagerie.”
  • 2/26/2011, Lois Tilton reviewed “Simulacrum” and “The Paper Menagerie.” The former gets a recommendation.
  • 2/20/2011, Crossed Genres Quarterly #1 is out. This one contains the first issues of the magazine edited by Jaym Gates & Natania Barron, with stories by Christie Yant, Molly Tanzer, and Shelly Li and myself, among others. You can buy it here.
  • 2/3/2011, “The Literomancer” made it onto Locus‘s 2010 Recommended Reading List.
  • 1/7/2011, Dagan Books has announced the TOC for In Situ.
  • 1/7/2011, Lois Tilton reviewed my story, “Tying Knots.” She gave it a recommendation.
  • 12/31/2010, from editors Eric Choi and Derwin Mak: “The Dragon and the Star was the fifth bestselling mass market paperback at Toronto’s Bakka-Phoenix Books in 2010.” (source). My story, “Beidou,” is in it.
  • 12/2010, I’ve set up my Amazon author page. Check it out.