Most Popular Books by Ken Liu

Dad Like a Pro: A Guide for Asian Fathers Navigating Modern Parenthood ufeff“Dad Like a Pro: A Guide for Asian Fathers Navigating Modern Parenthood” Book Description Being an Asian dad in today’s world is no easy feat. You’re navigating the delicate balance between tradition and modernity, juggling work, family, and your own personal growth. Whether you grew up in a household steeped in cultural expectations or are trying to figure out your parenting groove in a new cultural environment, this book is here to help. “Dad Like a Pro” is a comprehensive guide tailored specifically for Asian fathers who want to thrive as parents, partners, and individuals. Packed with practical advice, heartfelt stories, and culturally relevant insights, this book tackles everything from parenting styles and communication to self-care and generational challenges. This isn’t about being a perfect dad—it’s about being your kind of dad, while honoring your heritage and embracing the realities of raising kids in the modern world.

The January/February 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Our landmark Issue 50, a double sized issue! Featuring new fiction by Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim, Mary Robinette Kowal, P. Djèlí Clark, A. T. Greenblatt, A.M. Dellamonica, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Sarah Pinsker, E. Lily Yu, Marie Brennan, Christopher Caldwell, John Wiswell, and Maureen Mchugh. Essays by Elsa Sjunneson, John Picacio, Annalee Newitz, A.T. Greenblatt, Diana M. Pho, and Javier Grillo-Marxuach, poetry by Neil Gaiman, Terese Mason Pierre, Sonya Taaffe, Betsy Aoki, Theodora Goss, Ali Trota, Abu Bakr Sadiq, Elizabeth Bear, and Brandon O''Brien, interviews with Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly; interviews with Eugenia Triantafyllou, E. Lily Yu, and Christopher Caldwell by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2022 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

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

As a cargo ship rockets across the galaxy to Canto Bight, the deckhands on board trade stories about legendary Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. But are the stories of the iconic and mysterious Skywalker true, or merely tall tales passed from one corner of the galaxy to another? Is Skywalker really a famous Jedi hero, an elaborate charlatan, or even part droid? The deckhands will have to decide for themselves when they hear The Legends of Luke Skywalker. A collection of myths and tall-tales about the legendary Jedi Luke Skywalker, written by Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Ken Liu.

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.

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.

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.

Today’s software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow? Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity. Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures are imagined by award-winning and bestselling human authors from the USA, UK, China, Ukraine, Chile, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka. "In this impressive collection, a star-studded lineup of 17 authors assembled by Shvartsman (Kakistocracy) raise angst-ridden questions about human-AI collaboration. ... This smart, kaleidoscopic view into the digital future will have readers longing to log off." - Publishers Weekly

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.

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.

La primera investigación de la huérfana-hacker Julia Z en un aterrador futuro cercano en el que la IA permea todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas. Con solo 14 años, Julia Z se convirtió en la infame «huérfana-hacker», un prodigio adolescente que se saltó la ley y llamó la atención de todo un país. Años después, está intentando dejar esa vida atrás, viviendo fuera del sistema, oculta en los suburbios de Boston. Pero su frágil anonimato se resquebraja cuando un abogado desesperado le suplica que lo ayude a encontrar a su mujer; una famosa celebridad que usa inteligencia artificial para crear sueños compartidos para miles de seguidores, y que ha sido secuestrada por una banda organizada. Contra sus instintos, Julia se lanza a un desgarrador viaje por el país, sumergiéndose en las sombras del sueño americano. Mientras investiga a la banda y se enfrenta a su propio pasado y a su deteriorada psyche, tendrá que hacer uso de todas sus habilidades, su tenacidad y su falta de respeto por la autoridad para descubrir la verdad. Cuanto vemos o parecemos mezcla una intriga donde todo está en juego con una profunda especulación del futuro del arte y de la sociedad bajo la sombra de la inteligencia artificial.

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

Esta colección incluye una selección de la ficción especulativa de Liu en los últimos cinco años: dieciocho de sus mejores relatos y un fragmento de El trono velado, el tercer volumen de la serie de fantasía épica La Dinastía del Diente de León. Desde narraciones sobre asesinos que viajan en el tiempo o sobre criptomonedas hasta conmovedoras historias de relaciones entre padres e hijos, los relatos de este volumen exploran temas importantes para el presente y arrojan una mirada visionaria al futuro de la humanidad.

« 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...

Mythe ou réalité historique ? Ken Liu nous raconte la légende du plus célèbre Jedi de la galaxie : Luke Skywalker. Alors qu''un navire cargo traverse la galaxie en direction de Canto Bight, l''équipe de bord échange des histoires sur le légendaire chevalier Jedi Luke Skywalker. Mais ces récits autour de cette figure emblématique et mystérieuse de la Rébellion, de ce fameux Luke Skywalker, sont-ils vrais, ou simplement de vastes épopées fabuleuses inventées, puis colportées et enrichies lors de leurs voyages d''un bout à l''autre de la galaxie ? Skywalker est-il vraiment un héros, un Jedi célèbre, ou un charlatan savamment élaboré ? Peut-être même était-ce un droïde ? Les matelots devront décider par eux-mêmes quand ils entendront Les Légendes de Luke Skywalker.