Ken Liu books

Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction and fantasy, best known for The Dandelion Dynasty series and his award-winning short stories including The Paper Menagerie.

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Thoughtcrime Experiments 2009 Buy
The Dragon and the Stars 2010 Buy
Daily Science Fiction Stories of November 2011 2011 Buy
Lightspeed: Year One 2011 Buy
The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan 2012 Buy
The Memory Eater 2012 Buy
Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012 2012 Buy
The Best of Electric Velocipede 2012 Buy
Diverse Energies 2012 Buy
The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 2 2012 Buy
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 2012 Buy
Unidentified Funny Objects 2012 Buy
Fish 2013 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 2013 Buy
The Other Half of the Sky 2013 Buy
Oz Reimagined 2013 Buy
Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013 Buy
Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 2013 Buy
Unidentified Funny Objects 2 2013 Buy
The Book of Apex: Volume 4 2013 Buy
Coffee 2013 Buy
Long Hidden 2014 Buy
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014 2014 Buy
The End is Nigh 2014 Buy
Dead Man’s Hand 2014 Buy
Clarkesworld: Year Six 2014 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014 Buy
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine 2014 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014 Buy
Futuredaze 2: Reprise 2014 Buy
Solaris Rising 3 2014 Buy
The End is Now 2014 Buy
Upgraded 2014 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures 2014 Buy
Time Travel: Recent Trips 2014 Buy
Mythic Delirium 2014 Buy
The Best of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine 2013-2014 2014 Buy
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition 2015 Buy
The End Has Come 2015 Buy
Press Start to Play 2015 Buy
Funny Science Fiction 2015 Buy
Loosed Upon the World 2015 Buy
Dragons, Droids & Doom 2015 Buy
Warrior Women 2015 Buy
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One 2016 Buy
Bridging Infinity 2016 Buy
Asian Monsters 2016 Buy
The Book of Swords: Part 1 2017 Buy
GlitterShip Year One 2017 Buy
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two 2017 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 2017 Buy
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore 2017 Buy
Steampunk Universe 2017 Buy
Unidentified Funny Objects 6 2017 Buy
Robots vs. Fairies 2018 Buy
Clarkesworld Year Nine: Volume One 2018 Buy
Timeshift: Tales of Time 2018 Buy
Current Futures 2019 Buy
The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories 2019 Buy
The Best of Uncanny 2019 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 6 2020 Buy
Escape Pod 2020 Buy
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins 2021 Buy
Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices 2021 Buy
Make Shift 2021 Buy
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One 2021 Buy
The Book of Witches 2023 Buy
The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI 2023 Buy
Deep Magic: Volume III 2025 Buy
The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Sixth Annual Collection 2025 Buy

Caroline M. Yoachim Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Archronology of Love 2020 Buy
Colors of the Immortal Palette 2021 Buy
We Will Teach You How to Read 2024 N/A
If a Digitized Tree Falls 2025 Buy

Faraway Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Prince and the Troll 2020 Buy
Hazel and Gray 2020 Buy
The Wickeds 2020 Buy
The Cleaners 2020 Buy
The Princess Game 2020 Buy

Feral Astrogators Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Other Half of the Sky 2013 Buy
To Shape the Dark 2016 Buy
Retellings of the Inland Seas 2020 Buy

Frontiers of Speculative Fiction Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Clones: The Anthology 2016 N/A
Clones 2024 Buy
Oceans 2024 Buy

Future Science Fiction Digest Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Best SF 1967 1968 N/A
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 1 2018 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 2 2019 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Volume 2 2021 N/A
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 3 2019 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 4 2019 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 5 2019 Buy
The 6th Annual Best SF 72 1973 N/A
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 6 2020 Buy
The 7th Annual Best SF 73 1974 N/A
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 7 2020 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction No. 8 1976 N/A
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 8 2020 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 9 2020 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 10 2021 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 11 2021 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 12 2021 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 13 2021 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 10 1997 N/A
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14 2022 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 15 2022 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 16 2022 Buy
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 17 2022 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 2004 N/A
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection 2010 N/A
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection 2011 N/A
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012 N/A
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection 2015 N/A
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 2017 N/A
Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection 2018 N/A

Journey To Star Wars: The Last Jedi Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Phasma 2017 Buy
Star Wars Annual 2018 2017 Buy
Star Wars Kirigami 2017 Buy
Stormtroopers: Beyond the Armor 2017 Buy
The Legends of Luke Skywalker 2017 Buy
The Rebel Files: Collected Intelligence of the Alliance 2017 Buy
Captain Phasma 2017 Buy
Canto Bight 2017 Buy

Julia Z

Title Published Buy on Amazon
All That We See or Seem 2025 Buy

L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025 Buy

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Laozi’s Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time 2024 Buy

Short Stories/Novellas

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Caretaker 2011 N/A
Simulacrum 2011 N/A
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary 2011 N/A
Staying Behind 2011 N/A
Good Hunting 2012 Buy
Mono no Aware 2012 Buy
Knotting Grass, Holding Ring 2014 N/A
Presence 2014 N/A
The Regular 2014 Buy
An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition 2016 N/A
The Passing of the Dragon 2023 Buy
If a Digitized Tree Falls 2025 Buy

Short Story Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories 2016 Buy
The Prince and the Troll 2020 N/A
Hazel and Gray 2020 N/A
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories 2020 Buy
The Princess Game 2020 N/A
The Cleaners 2020 N/A
The Wickeds 2020 N/A

The Anderson Project Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Reborn 2014 N/A
Space Ballet 2014 N/A
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 2014 N/A

The Dandelion Dynasty Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Ctnosti králů 2015 N/A
The Grace of Kings 2015 Buy
The Wall of Storms 2016 Buy
El trono velado 2021 N/A
The Veiled Throne 2021 Buy
Speaking Bones 2022 Buy

The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023 Buy
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024 Buy

Ken Liu writes science fiction and fantasy that draws heavily on East Asian history and mythology. His Dandelion Dynasty series, which opens with The Grace of Kings in 2015, reimagines the founding of the Han Dynasty as an epic fantasy, blending political intrigue with silkpunk technology. The series ran to four novels and was completed with Speaking Bones in 2022.

Beyond his novels, Liu has built a considerable reputation as a short fiction writer. His story “The Paper Menagerie” became the first work of fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. His collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories gather his best shorter work, which ranges from hard science fiction to folk-tale-inspired fantasy.

Liu is also a prolific translator and editor. He brought Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem to English-speaking audiences, and he has edited numerous anthologies and contributed to the Future Science Fiction Digest and other publications that promote international speculative fiction.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Ken Liu written?

Ken Liu has written 209 books across fifteen series.

What was Ken Liu's first book?

Ken Liu’s first book is Best SF 1967, published in 1968.

What is Ken Liu best known for?

Ken Liu is best known for his Dandelion Dynasty epic fantasy series beginning with The Grace of Kings, his Hugo Award-winning short story “The Paper Menagerie,” and his work translating Chinese science fiction into English, including Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem.

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