New Releases by Ken Liu

The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary is a science fictional tale that examines a branch of science rarely encountered in genre fiction: historiography. How and why should our understanding of history change if eyewitness accounts by observers sent from the future are prioritized over contemporaneous documents? A finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards, this story also won the Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Story in Spain. Ken Liu has called it the story he''s most proud of having written.

Quince relatos y novelas cortas de uno de los mejores escritores de ficción breve de la ciencia-ficción. "El zoo de papel" es la primera obra que ha obtenido los tres grandes premios del género en el mismo año. "La obra breve de Ken Liu ha ganado todos los premios internacionales de prestigio y, lo que es más importante, ha conquistado también y para siempre el corazón de los lectores de todo el mundo." Mariano Villarreal, Literatura Fantástica "A través de todos estos cuentos, Liu utiliza tropos de la fantasía y la ciencia ficción para explorar de forma profunda, inteligente y, en muchas ocasiones, tremendamente emotiva una gran diversidad de temas con la intención final de arrojar un poco de luz sobre la gran pregunta de qué significa ser humano... Es una colección de relatos impresionante y no podéis perdérosla." Elías Combarro, Sense of Wonder "Las historias incluidas en esta colección tratan una amplia variedad de temas, pero siempre están relatadas con una voz clara y segura. Una colección imprescindible." "SF Signal" "Algunas de estas historias tienen un lado sombrío y a veces inquietante, casi todas son provocadoras y hay varias brillantes." "The Chicago Tribune" "Los maravillosos relatos de Liu exploran de forma elocuente el lugar en que se encuentran lo ordinario y lo extraordinario." "The Washington Post" "En cada relato Liu planta diminutas semillas de una historia personal, que florecen en narraciones con ramificaciones mucho más profundas. Un libro que debería leer absolutamente todo el mundo." Andrew Liptak "Las historias son el lenguaje con el que nos hablamos unos a otros. En "El zoo de papel y otros relatos" Liu lo habla con una elocuencia devastadora." Amal El-Mohtar

UFO2 is the second annual collection of humorous science fiction and fantasy short stories. Inside you''ll find: - A golem on an interstellar cruise ship - Dragon-taunting for fun and profit - Time travel gone really wrong - Cubicle farm wizardry - Alien behemoths in Central Park

Building Towards Tomorrow Sense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering scale – metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and repurposed, landscapes re-engineered, starships bigger than worlds – the only response we have is reverence, admiration, and possibly fear at something that is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful. Bridging Infinity puts humanity at the heart of that experience, as builder, as engineer, as adventurer, reimagining and rebuilding the world, the solar system, the galaxy and possibly the entire universe in some of the best science fiction stories you will experience. Bridging Infinity continues the award-winning Infinity Project series of anthologies with new stories from Alastair Reynolds, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter, Charlie Jane Anders, Tobias S.Buckell, Karen Lord, Karin Lowachee, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Gregory Benford, Larry Liven, Robert Reed, Pamela Sargent, Allen Steele, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, An Owomoyela, Thoraiya Dyer and Ken Liu.

Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated "Folding Beijing" by Hao Jingfang, add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, some have garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year''s Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu''s personal favorites. To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest in international science fiction will find Invisible Planets an indispensable addition to their collection. For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Broken Stars. Stories: "The Year of the Rat" by Chen Qiufan "The Fist of Lijian" by Chen Qiufan "The Flower of Shazui" by Chen Qiufan "A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia "Tongtong''s Summer" by Xia Jia "Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse" by Xia jia "The City of Silence" by Ma Boyong "Invisible Planets" by Hao Jingfang "Folding Beijing" by Hao Jingfang "Call Girl" by Tang Fei "Grave of the Fireflies" by Cheng Jingbo "The Circle" by Liu Cixin "Taking Care of God" by Liu Cixin Essays: "The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three-Body and Chinese Science Fiction" by Liu Cixin and Ken Liu "The Torn Generation" Chinese Science Fiction in a Culture in Transition" by Chen Qiufan and Ken Liu "What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?" by Xia Jia and Ken Liu At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Ken Liu.

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time In the much-anticipated sequel to the “magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders. Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara, but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and his vision. Then an unexpected invading force from the Lyucu empire in the far distant west comes to the shores of Dara—and chaos results. But Emperor Kuni cannot go and lead his kingdom against the threat himself with his recently healed empire fraying at the seams, so he sends the only people he trusts to be Dara’s savvy and cunning hopes against the invincible invaders: his children, now grown and ready to make their mark on history.

Von der TIME zu den 100 besten Fantasy-Büchern aller Zeiten gewählt Der Auftakt zu Ken Lius meisterhafter Seidenkrieger-Trilogie - ausgezeichnet mit dem Locus-Award für das beste Fantasy-Debüt 2016 Mit »Die Schwerter von Dara«, dem ersten Band der Seidenkrieger-Trilogie, hat Liu ein episches High-Fantasy-Werk geschaffen, in dem der Autor meisterhaft Elemente der chinesischen Mythologie mit politischen Intrigen und überzeugenden Charakteren mischt: Zwei Männer höchst unterschiedlicher Herkunft steigen gemeinsam zu Anführern einer Rebellion gegen den tyrannischen Kaiser auf. Sie sind sich näher als Brüder – und werden zu Todfeinden, als ein erbittertes Ringen um die Nachfolge des Herrschers beginnt. Der gerissene, charmante Kuni Garu, ein Bandit, und der strenge, furchtlose Mata Zyndu, der Sohn eines abgesetzten Herzogs, werden beim Aufstand gegen den Kaiser in eine Reihe von Abenteuern im Kampf gegen Armeen, in Seide gehüllte Luftschiffe und gestaltwandelnde Götter gezogen. Nach dem Sturz des Kaisers finden sich die beiden jedoch als Anführer verschiedener Fraktionen wieder – zwei Seiten mit sehr unterschiedlichen Vorstellungen darüber, wie die Welt geführt werden sollte und was Gerechtigkeit bedeutet. Als erster Autor ist Ken Liu für eine Short Story sowohl mit dem ›Nebula‹ als auch mit dem ›Hugo‹ und dem ›World Fantasy Award‹ ausgezeichnet worden. »Erzählt in Lius eleganter, intelligenter Prosa, ist der Roman ein prächtiges Fest epischer Fantasy.« Rob Bedford, SFF World »Die Schwerter von Dara« ist der erste Teil der Seidenkrieger-Reihe. Die epische High-Fantasy-Serie ist in folgender Reihenfolge erschienen: Die Schwerter von Dara - Seidenkrieger Band 1 Die Götter von Dara - Seidenkrieger Band 2 Die Stürme von Dara - Seidenkrieger Band 3

We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net, and Ryman’s The Child Garden; stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan has put together sixteen unique tales of deluged worlds and those who fight to survive and strive to live. Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.

Fantascienza - racconto lungo (29 pagine) - Gli uomini non sono uccelli, non sanno volare. Ma possono imparare Xana era il regno più povero e debole dell''Arcipelago. La sua unica speranza di poter mantenere l''indipendenza era stata riposta nelle Forze Aeree: e proprio a Kino, giovane ingegnere di belle speranze, era stato affidato l''incarico di trovare il modo di trasformare quei piccoli aquiloni da ricognizioni in armi capaci di cambiare la sorte della guerra. Gli uomini, a differenza degli uccelli, non sono fatti per volare. Ma gli uccelli possono insegnare qualcosa, a chi è abbastanza attento e intelligente da riuscire a comprendere il loro segreto. Nato in Cina ed emigrato fin da piccolo negli Stati Uniti, Ken Liu è uno degli autori più interessanti nel piccolo ma vivace gruppo di scrittori fantastici cino-americani. Più volte finalista e vincitore dei premi Hugo e Nebula, attinge spesso per le sue storie alla tradizione cinese, intessendola con elementi fantastici o fantascientifici. È anche traduttore dal cinese all''inglese. Tra i suoi racconti pubblicati in italia Il serraglio di carta (Robot), Mono No Aware (Future Fiction) e L''aria non appartiene a nessuno (prossima pubblicazione su Robot).

Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One is a collection of all the stories published by Fantasy Scroll Magazine''s in its first year. It includes a wide range of speculative short stories from fantasy to science fiction to horror. Some stories deal with death, others may leave you laughing to death. It''s all here, and it''s fantastic.

Premios Hugo 2010 y 2014, Nebula 2013, British Science Fiction 2012 En A la deriva en el Mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos el lector podra encontrar emotivas historias acerca del ultimo viaje espacial de una madura mujer astronauta, de las consecuencias de comercializar munecas capaces de superar el test de Turing, del uso de la animacion suspendida para la explotacion comercial de cadaveres, del dificil camino hacia el entendimiento y el perdon, de la subjetividad en el terreno de la percepcion, de relaciones familiares alternativas surgidas tras un desastre ecologico, bellisimas historias de amor en clave de poema y nuevas oportunidades para la humanidad tras la completa des- truccion de la Tierra. Piezas de ciencia ficcion de futuro cercano en su mayoria, inquietantes, sorprendentes, narradas con gran sensibilidad y poseedoras de un fuerte componente filosofico, de la mano de escritores tan destacados como Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Liu, Will McIntosh, Mike Resnick, Ted Chiang, Rachel Swirsky, Carrie Vaughn e Ian Sales; cinco hombres y tres mujeres que evidencian la riqueza y solidez de la narrativa de ciencia ficcion actual."

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice. Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.

« Elle plaque la feuille sur la table, face vierge exposée, et la plie. Intrigué, j’arrête de pleurer pour l’observer. Ma mère retourne le papier et le plie de nouveau, avant de le border, de le plisser, de le rouler et de le tordre jusqu’à ce qu’il disparaisse entre ses mains en coupe. Puis elle porte ce petit paquet à sa bouche...

There''s something compelling about the shine of clicking brass clockwork and hiss of steam-driven automatons. But there was something missing. It was easy to find excellent stories of American and British citizens... but we rarely got to see steampunk from the point of view of the rest of the world. Until now. Steampunk World is a showcase for nineteen authors to flip the levers and start the pistons and invite you to experience the entirety of steampunk.

The second in a series of story groupings based upon a pre-existing work of art, in this case a Richard Anderson painting. The first such group, The Palencar Project, was published by Tor.com in 2012. Ken Liu is among the most prominent new award-winning Science Fiction writers of the last decade, and in "Reborn" his vision of a really uncanny alien invasion set in Boston, MA, is a stunner, with echoing reverberations, of love, identity, resistance and revolution. Judith Moffett is a poet, biographer, and SF writer who somehow manages to blend all these passions in a story about a new art form involving the science of dreaming, and interpreting dreams, and art. Give a poet a painting to write a story about and you get "Space Ballet", in which students at the Center for Dream Research struggle to interpret a cryptic precognitive dream, a group effort that may avert a disaster. Kathleen Ann Goonan''s stories and novels often evoke a deep desire for some form of utopian future, both better and somehow wilder that the present. Her story "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" is about an animal rights activist and a genius parrot, inter-species communication, and the dream of space, a great leap forward in several ways. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Future SF is a magazine focusing on international science fiction. In this issue we feature stories from the Czech Republic, Catalonia, Russia, and the United States.

Coffee plays a major role in each of the stories collected in this book. Brewed from such fine ingredients as magic, wonder, humor, and romance, Coffee serves up a unique blend of the fantastic you won''t be able to put down.