Ken Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu's other works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, The Veiled Throne, and a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work including the short story "Good Hunting," adapted as an episode in Netflix's animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. "The Hidden Girl," "The Message," and "The Cleaners" have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism, cryptocurrency, the history of technology, and the value of storytelling. Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
"The Hidden Girl and Other Stories explores ideas such as the
intersection of tradition and progress, the fallibility of memory
and the essence of what it means to be human."--WBUR
"[A]mong the most memorable creations of Liu's career...poignant
and powerful."--AV Club
"[O]ne of the best sci-fi writers around."--AUSTIN
AMERICAN-STATESMAN
"Discover one of science fiction's stars."--Charlie Jane Anders,
Hugo Award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky
"Ken Liu is among the most important figures to emerge in science
fiction in the last decade or so."--Chicago Tribune
"Ken Liu is the kind of prodigious talent who makes mere mortals
melt in despair at ever matching his accomplishments...including
almost single-handedly launching a boom in Chinese SF translated
for English-language readers. And now here he is with a magnificent
new story collection."--LOCUS
"Ken Liu's output is as amazing as his stories."--The Boston
Globe
"Like Octavia Butler, Liu probes our ethical wounds, examining
injustice and oppression from some uncomfortable angles." --Nisi
Shawl, The Seattle Times
"Liu's stories went deep into my marrow, laying bare painful
truths, meticulously slicing through the layers of pearl to find
the grain of sand at its heart."--NPR
"Liu's writing...brims not only with literal spirits of the dead,
but with ghosts in the machine, ghosts of our past selves, and
ghosts of futures that never came to pass. Hidden Girl
examines-through narratives full of magic, extant innovations, or
technologies so speculative they may as well be magic-how we remain
connected to ourselves during relentless change."--Harvard
Magazine
"Woah man, deep...Let the marble that is your (non-uploaded) brain
roll around in that cosmic Klein bottle as you make your way
through the book."--WIRED
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