Ken Liu
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Portrait of Ken Liu by Lisa Tang Liu, 2014 | |
| Born | 刘宇昆; Liú Yǔkūn 1976 (age 49–50) 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 science fiction works into English, winning Hugo Awards for these translations as well.