Liu's short story collection “The Hidden Girl and Other Stories” (2020) explores ideas such as tradition and progress, the fallibility of memory, and the essence of what it means to be human. His short story 'Good Hunting' was adapted into an animated short as part of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots series (2019). His short story 'Real Artists' was adapted into the short film Real Artists (2017) by Cameo Wood. His short story 'Memories of My Mother' was the basis of Beautiful Dreamer (2016) by David Gaddie. Some of Liu's work have been adapted into visual media.

While editing the anthology Invisible Planets, Ken Liu translated the stories contained within it from Chinese into English. His translation of The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin helped the book become a best seller to English readers. Īlong with his original work, Liu has translated the works of multiple Chinese authors into English, including Liu Cixin, Hao Jingfang, Chen Qiufan, and Xia Jia. He has also written for the Star Wars universe, with The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017). Īfter a long career writing and publishing short fiction, Liu turned to epic fantasy novels, starting with The Grace of Kings (2015). Liu has said he wanted to become a writer so he could make stories that “turn values upside down and inside out to gain new perspectives”. His first published work was 'Carthaginian Rose', a short story on mind uploading, which was published alongside nine other authors in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1.

from Harvard Law School in 2004 and after working as a corporate lawyer, eventually became a high-tech litigation consultant. Īfter graduation, Liu worked as a software engineer for Microsoft, and then joined a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard College, he studied English Literature and Computer Science, receiving his A. Liu graduated from Waterford High School in 1994, where he ran cross-country and track. They lived in California and Stonington, Connecticut before settling in Waterford, Connecticut. The family immigrated to the United States when Liu was 11 years old. in chemistry in the United States, is a pharmaceutical chemist, while his father is a computer engineer. He spent his childhood with his grandparents. The series is published by Simon & Schuster.

Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple 'Year's Best' anthologies. Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.

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