New Releases by 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

Futur proche. Deux scientifiques mettent au point un procédé révolutionnaire permettant de retourner dans le passé. Une seule et unique fois par période visitée, pour une seule et unique personne, et sans aucune possibilité pour l''observateur d''interférer avec l''objet de son observation. Une révolution qui promet la vérité sur les périodes les plus obscures de l''histoire humaine. Plus de mensonges. Plus de secrets d''État. Créée en 1932 sous mandat impérial japonais, dirigée par le général Shiro Ishii, l''Unité 731 se livra à l''expérimentation humaine à grande échelle dans la province chinoise du Mandchoukouo, entre 1936 et 1945, provoquant la mort de près d''un demi-million de personnes... L''Unité 731, à peine reconnue par le gouvernement japonais en 2002, passée sous silence par les forces d''occupation américaines pendant des années, est la première cible de cette invention révolutionnaire. La vérité à tout prix. Quitte à mettre fin à l''Histoire.

"The Grace of Kings, the first book in this epic series, tells the story of two men who become friends through rebelling against tyranny and then turn against each other in defense of irreconcilable ideals. 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, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who seem to prophesy the future. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, the two find themselves the leaders of two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice"--

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.

Un épi de blé noir sur fond rouge. L’épi s’étirait en amande pointue, on ne pouvait s’empêcher de penser à la lame d’une épée. Sable sur lit de gueule, Merlin ne connaissait pas les mots, il ne savait rien de l’héraldique, il ne savait rien du monde. Le dessin très stylisé se trouvait sur un rectangle de tissu synthétique, un drapeau attaché à la lance d’un equites abattu. En voyant le dessin au bout de la lance couchée de ce garçon que Marie, la sage Marie avait allongé d’une balle en pleine tête, il se souvient d’avoir formulé ces mots à voix haute pour la première fois : la dame des moissons, avec un frisson de peur et de fascination comme s’il avait été capable alors de distinguer dans l’avenir son propre chemin, ses propres transformations. Les autres restaientsaisis par l’arrivée soudaine des quatre puppies, et la surprise d’avoir vu l’equites sortir du chemin, sa lance accrochée au dos portant l’étendard de l’épi. Celui-là avait failli les avoir tous, jusqu’au sacrifice d’Ishmaël... Laurent Kloetzer La Confirmation

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).

Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers by Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Laura Anne Gilman, Scott Edelman and more. Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an ancient one, found in nearly every human mythology. Genius Loci is a huge anthology of 31 all-new fantasy and science fiction stories drawing on the rich tradition of place-as-person. Within its pages, the authors present stories of sentient deserts, beneficent forests, lonely shrubs, and protective planetary spirits, highlighted by the fantastic art of Lisa A. Grabenstetter and Evan M. Jensen., and edited by Jaym Gates.

Fantascienza - racconto lungo (32 pagine) - La Conquista della Terra era stata un bagno di sangue. Ma ora i Tawnin volevano dimenticare il passato Quello che i Tawnin, gli alieni che anni addietro avevano conquistato la Terra, cercavano di insegnare agli umani è che non siamo individui, ma insiemi di doverse persone che coabitano nello stesso corpo. Così, quando qualcuno era condannato per un delitto, i Tawnin non facevano altro che cancellare la parte corrotta della sua personalità salvando il resto. Era una Rinascita, l''inizio di una nuova vita. 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).

Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of story-telling. In “The Man Who Sold the Moon,” by Cory Doctorow, hardware geeks and Burning Man fanatics band together to overcome challenges such as crowdfunding a space mission, falling in love, battling cancer and perfecting an open source engineering marvel in order to put a 3D printing robot, that creates ceramic building panels from sand, on the moon. “The Man Who Sold the Moon” won the 2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction. In “The Regular,” by Ken Liu, a cybernetically enhanced private investigator keeps her emotions in check with a piece of hardware called The Regulator while she searches for the murderer of a prostitute whom she suspects is a serial killer. “Claudius Rex,” by John P. Murphy, is a sci-fi whodunit comedy that pays tongue-in-cheek homage to Rex Stout and Isaac Asimov. A humble PI partners with an arrogant AI to solve the murder of the AI’s creator. Ai! In “Of All Possible Worlds,” by Jay O’Connell, an old timeline wizard coaxes a younger man to become his apprentice in an attempt to edit Earth’s history so that the planet will escape the ravages of the Long Night and ensure that our timeline is the best of all possible worlds. In “Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key,” by William Preston, the U.S. government brings a telepathic interrogator, who is a veteran of the American war in Iraq, to a secret complex in Texas to get a handle on an enigmatic prisoner known as “The Old Man.” A test of wills ensues between the two in this homage to Doc Savage. Finally, in “The Last Log of the Lachrimosa,” by Alastair Reynolds, set in the Revelation Space universe, a crew investigates a cave on a volcanic planet in the hopes of salvaging valuable abandoned tech only to discover that the cave is defended by a horrific psychological weapon.

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.

First Contact - Digital Science Fiction Anthology: Original Imprint - Book 1 (54,569 words; about 192 pages in print), is an anthology of ten original science fiction short stories from professional writers. We are pleased to present in this exciting anthology a rich range of compelling new stories from established authors. In selecting stories for inclusion in this introductory edition we looked not only for exciting or novel content but for genuine literary quality. We know these science fiction tales will not only entertain, but will offer something extra as well: an aesthetic pleasure, a beauty, or a thought-provoking quality that renders them timeless. Ten unique stories by professional science fiction authors. First Contact includes 10 first-time-published science fiction short stories by: - Ian Creasey - How I Lost Eleven Stone and Found Love - Ed Greenwood - Biting a Dead Man''s Hand - Ken Liu - The Caretaker - Jennifer R. Povey - Masks - Rob Jacobsen - Hera''s Tempest - Edward J. Knight - Roanoke Nevada - Jessi Rita Hoffman - Nectar of the Gods - Kenneth Schneyer - The Tortoise Parliament - David Tallerman - Black Sun - Curtis James McConnell - Pop Quiz

recompose: to compose again or differently. This is the first pre-crowdfunded issue of recompose, #0.

Jordy Verrill était seul sur sa propriété bordant Bluebird Creek quand la météorite traça son sillage de feu à basse altitude et s’enfouit dans la rive orientale du ruisseau. Le ciel du soir, lumineux vers l’ouest, violet au-dessus de sa tête, noircissait à l’est où luisait le cierge magique de Vénus. On était le 4 juillet ; Jordy comptait aller en...

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 podrá encontrar emotivas historias acerca del último viaje espacial de una madura mujer astronauta, de las consecuencias de comercializar muñecas capaces de superar el test de Turing, del uso de la animación suspendida para la explotación comercial de cadáveres, del difícil camino hacia el entendimiento y el perdón, de la subjetividad en el terreno de la percepción, de relaciones familiares alternativas surgidas tras un desastre ecológico, bellísimas historias de amor en clave de poema y nuevas oportunidades para la humanidad tras la completa des- trucción de la Tierra. Piezas de ciencia ficción de futuro cercano en su mayoría, inquietantes, sorprendentes, narradas con gran sensibilidad y poseedoras de un fuerte componente filosófico, 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 ficción actual.

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."

« 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...

FEATURING NEW WRITING BY Benjanun Sriduangkaew // Chris Beckett // Julie E. Czerneda // Ken Liu // Tony Ballantyne // Sean Williams // Laura Lam // Aliette de Bodard // Ian Watson // Gareth L. Powell // Nina Allan // Adam Roberts // George Zebrowski // Cat Sparks // Rachel Swirsky // Benjamin Rosenbaum // Alex Dally MacFarlane // Ian R. MacLeod & Martin Sketchley Award-nominated editor Ian Whates showcases the best in contemporary science fiction, celebrating new writing by a roster of diverse and exciting authors. Here you will discover how this ‘literature of ideas’ produces stories of astonishing imagination and incisive speculation. Solaris Rising 3 thrillingly demonstrates why science fiction is the most relevant, daring and progressive of genres.

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.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #1 brings you twelve short stories from authors such as Ken Liu, Seth Chambers, KJ Kabza, Alex Shvartsman, Hank Quense, and more. The magazine contains a well-balanced mix of original stories and reprints from new authors, bestsellers, and award-winning writers, plus a variety of nonfiction features, such as author and editor interviews, book reviews, and movie reviews. The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

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.

"The idea of time travel has been with us since ancient times. Now, the concept of time travel seems ... almost ... plausible. Today, tales of chrononauts are more imaginative and thought-provoking than ever before: new views, cutting-edge concepts, radical notions of paradox and possibility -- state-of-the-art speculative stories collected from those written in the twenty-first century. Forward to the past, back to the future -- get ready for a fascinating trip!"--Page 4 of cover.

Ocho autores internacionales demuestran que la ciencia ficcion no ha perdido su garra ni su capacidad especulativa, y que es la narrativa que mas y mejor trata de las preocupaciones, desafios y problemas que afectan a nuestra sociedad actual. Desde la extrapolacion y la metafora del futuro, analiza y disecciona una realidad en continuo cambio. El zoo de papel, de Ken Liu (premios Hugo, Nebula y World Fantasy 2012 de relato corto): la importancia de las raices frente a la sociedad globalizada. Deirdre, de Lola Robles: un futuro donde la robotica permite crear companeros sentimentales a medida. Recuerdos de un pais zombi, de Erick J. Mota: una sociedad estancada que transforma a sus ciudadanos en muertos vivientes. Enciende una vela solitaria, de Victor Conde: una profunda critica a las redes sociales. Cuerpos, de Juanfran Jimenez: en una Europa seudodemocratica y globalizada, los ricos tienen una nueva opcion de turismo sexual consistente en el intercambio de mentes. Un dia sin papa, de Ian Watson: una madre de familia debe responsabilizarse, ademas, de la personalidad digitalizada de su padre. Memoria, de Teresa P. Mira de Echeverria: el planeta Marte de un futuro relativamente cercano, radical y arriesgado en lo tocante a relaciones personales y roles sexuales. El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software, de Ted Chiang (premios Hugo y Locus 2011 de novela corta): la evolucion de dos inteligencias artificiales que viven en un entorno digital y sus complejas relaciones con los humanos.

Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2011 by current and emerging masters of this form. In "The Ice Owl," by Carolyn Ives Gilman, an adolescent, female, Waster in the iron city of Glory to God finds an enigmatic tutor who provides her with much more than academic instruction while a fundamentalist revolt is underway. In the HUGO AWARDwinner, "The Man Who Bridged the Mist," by Kij Johnson, an architect from the capital builds a bridge over a dangerous mist that will change more than just the Empire. In "Kiss Me Twice," by Mary Robinette Kowal, a detective, with the assistance of the police department''s AI that takes on Mae West''s persona, solves a murder with all the flair of an Asimov robot story. "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," by Ken Liu, is a moving chronicle of attempts to witness the history of Japanese atrocities against the Chinese in a World War II prison camp by traveling back in time using Bohm-Kirino particles. In "The Ants of Flanders," by Robert Reed, a teenage boy, incapable of fear, takes center stage in an alien invasion of Earth that pits alien foes against each other in a war that has no regard for mankind''s existence. Finally, in "Angel of Europa," by Allen M. Steele, an arbiter aboard a space ship, exploring the moons of Jupiter, is resuscitated from a hibernation tank to investigate the deaths of two scientists that took place in a bathyscaphe underneath the global ocean of Europa.

From independent publisher Dagan Books, IN SITU is a new anthology of science fiction stories featuring alien archeology, hidden mysteries, and things that are better off left buried... Edited by Carrie Cuinn, this intriguing collection contains original fiction and art.

Clarkesworld Magazine is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. This issue features fiction by Yoon Ha Lee ("Ghostweight") and Ken Liu ("Tying Knots"), an interview with Walter Jon Williams, and an article on Romance in Science Fiction movies by Daniel M. Kimmel.