Ken Liu, Writer

Author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie

writing

Some Kind Words on My Novella

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“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” is the work that I’m most proud of.

I’ve been really moved and honored by some of the recent comments on it from other writers.

I feel very luck as a member of the speculative fiction communities in English and Chinese. The best part of this business is writing about something important to you and then be understood.

The Man Who Ended History

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Thanks to Panverse and Dario Ciriello, my novella, “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary,” is now available for download as a free PDF.

I’m really proud of this work, and if you’re interested in nominating one of my works for an award, this is the one (it belongs to the novella category).

Other works from me eligible for an award nomination may be found here.

2011

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2011 was a really good year for me. I broke into some great markets, published one story I’m really proud of, translated a few good Chinese stories, and got to know some wonderful writers who I now consider friends.

I just about doubled my submissions, and more than doubled my acceptances. So that’s an improvement.

2012 will be about finishing the novel(s) and getting started on that novel I really want to write. I hope it will be even better than 2011.

And I hope the same is true for you.

Music of the Spheres, Illustrated

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“Music of the Spheres” is going to be the cover story for the January 2012 issue of 科幻世界 / Science Fiction World. The editors were kind enough to share with me the cover image and an illustration done for it.

SFW January 2012 cover

SFW January 2012 cover

I’m always grateful to the illustrators who provide art for my stories: they give my words a new interpretation that I couldn’t have come up with on my own.

SALE: Robots

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One of the first stories I ever published, “The Algorithms for Love”, has been selected for Robots: the Recent A.I., edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace.

Robots Front Cover

I’m pretty proud to be in this ToC:

“Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear, Asimov’s
“A Jar of Goodwill” by Tobias S. Buckell, Clarkesworld Magazine
“Balancing Accounts” by James Cambias, F&SF
“The Rising Waters” by Benjamin Crowell, Strange Horizons
“The Shipmaker” by Aliette De Bodard, Interzone
“I, Robot” by Cory Doctorow, The Infinite Matrix
“Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal, Asimov’s
“Algorithms for Love” by Ken Liu, Strange Horizons
“Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Interzone
“The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald, Asimov’s
“Houses” by Mark Pantoja, Lightspeed Magazine
“Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt, Strange Horizons
“Stalker” by Robert Reed, Asimov’s
“Droplet” by Benjamin Rosenbaum, F&SF
“Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky, Tor.com
“Under the Eaves” by Lavie Tidhar, original
“Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M.Valente, WSFA Press / Clarkesworld
“The Nearest Thing” by Genevieve Valentine, Lightspeed Magazine

Fireside Magazine

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This is a pretty interesting time for the publishing industry: new business models, new media, new challenges and opportunities.

Brian White, a self-described “committed word nerd,” is trying something new: a magazine of short fiction that has no genre limits. The only requirement for stories being that “they are the kind that make pages turn like they are being blown in the wind.”

Fireside is now running a Kickstarter campaign to get funding from crowd sourcing. We can certainly use your help.

Contributors to the first issue include Tobias S. Buckell, D.J. Kirkbride, Adam P. Knave, Chuck Wendig, Christie Yant, Amy Houser, and me. If you back us, we’ll even sign your copies :)

Thanks for your support. You’re the ones keeping storytelling alive.