Ken Liu
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Portrait of Ken Liu by Lisa Tang Liu. | |
| Born | 刘宇昆; Liú Yǔkūn 1976 (age 48–49) Lanzhou, Gansu, China |
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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
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| Spouse | Lisa Kaiyee Tang Liu |
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉宇昆 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘宇昆 | ||||||||
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Kenneth Yukun Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Reactor, Uncanny Magazine and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.
Liu's debut epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, is described as silkpunk, a term coined by him to encapsulate the way it blends the material culture and philosophical roots of East Asian antiquity in an alternative vision of modernity.
Liu has also written a new scifi thriller series, Julia Z, which features a hacker with a specialty in AI and robotics.
In addition to his original fiction, Liu has also translated some notable Chinese SF works into English, winning Hugo Awards for these translations as well.