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Ken Liu

@kyliu99.bsky.social

SFF author, speaker, lawyer, programmer; Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy; rep by Russ Galen; The Dandelion Dynasty & “The Paper Menagerie"

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Well, OwlCrate did this edition right.

All That We See or Seem by @kyliu99.bsky.social

#BookMail #BookSky

29.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I had a great time meeting readers and chatting with Alex Chua at Book Bar about ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM last night. Though it was raining, the store was packed! Come to the Book Bar and support Singapore authors!

29.11.2025 07:27 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazing visit to the ArtScience Museum. Another World Is Possible shows us hopeful visions of the future. Thank you to Honor Harger and Joshua Lau for this wonderful act of visioneering.

29.11.2025 07:19 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And major thank yous to Bloomsbury, my Commonwealth publisher, and Pansing Books, my distributor, for doing all the work behind the scenes to get books to readers in SG and Malaysia.

24.11.2025 02:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My gratitude to Kinokuniya Singapore and the staff for making my book talk on ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM such a success! I loved meeting readers and talking about the book with Hwee Goh. And I heard so many thoughtful questions and moving stories from readers. You make all the work worth it!

23.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu: Review by Gary K. Wolfe All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga 978-1-6680-8317-8, $30.00, 408pp, hc) October 2025. I confess I’ve never been enamored of dream-technology tales, in which some sort of SFnal intervention per…

“What finally enables ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM to succeed as an intellectual thriller – as well as near-future SF–is that Liu’s own sense of wonder is never far from the surface, and never less than infectious.” @garykwolfe reviews @kyliu99.bsky.social

22.11.2025 02:00 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

These stories are peak. Go read them; you'll thank me.

20.11.2025 13:55 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New Short Fiction for 2025 I had two short stories come out this fall, both very fun projects that I’m very excited to finally get to share. Encounter at Ákroterra The first needs some explaining: it’s part of th…

If you need to set in a good stock of short stories for some introvert time this season, I had two science fiction pieces out this year that I'm quite proud of and hope you get a chance to enjoy.
johnpmurphy.net/2025/11/19/n...

20.11.2025 01:56 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3
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From Cinema To The Noematograph | NOEMA Much like the camera’s ability to capture motion transformed storytelling, AI is a new artistic medium for capturing subjective experience.

Celebrated novelist @kyliu99.bsky.social tells @futurologypod.bsky.social he believes AI will be a transformative technology like the camera was for motion pictures — it will herald a new art form "that allows people to play with subjectivities & to craft their own fictions."

14.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

I'm reading Ken Liu's (@kyliu99.bsky.social) _All That We See or Seem_ right now, and it's so great to read sf by someone who understand AI and extrapolates well, even with artists. And the hacker woman is 💋. #sf

16.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Publishers Marketplace. November 10, 2025. The Flower Court by Kate Elliott. Imprint: Tor.  Kate Elliott's The Flower Court, a sapphic romantic fantasy in which a clever young scribe infiltrates the imperial consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman, only to find herself forced to work with the Dowager Empress’s loveliest and most condescending servant; together with a second novel, both set in the Witch Roads universe, to Lee Harris at Tor, in a very nice deal, in a two book deal, for publication in January 2027, by Russell Galen at Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency (world English). russellgalen@sgglit.com Translation: danny@barorinto.com

Publishers Marketplace. November 10, 2025. The Flower Court by Kate Elliott. Imprint: Tor. Kate Elliott's The Flower Court, a sapphic romantic fantasy in which a clever young scribe infiltrates the imperial consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman, only to find herself forced to work with the Dowager Empress’s loveliest and most condescending servant; together with a second novel, both set in the Witch Roads universe, to Lee Harris at Tor, in a very nice deal, in a two book deal, for publication in January 2027, by Russell Galen at Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency (world English). russellgalen@sgglit.com Translation: danny@barorinto.com

Peeps, here we go.

11.11.2025 22:26 — 👍 635    🔁 81    💬 67    📌 16
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The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty Book 2) The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty Book 2) - Kindle edition by Liu, Ken. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty Book 2).

The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty) Kindle Edition

"History is the long shadow cast by the past upon the future. Shadows, by nature, lack details"

Sale: $23.99 to $1.99

by Ken Liu
Rating: 4.5/5 (1,419 Reviews)

#Epic #Fantasy #Asian #Inspired #Fantasy #Silkpunk #Dandelion #Dynasty #BookSky

08.11.2025 04:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
How AI Will Translate Human Creativity as Sci-Fi and Reality Converge | The Futurology Podcast
YouTube video by Berggruen Institute How AI Will Translate Human Creativity as Sci-Fi and Reality Converge | The Futurology Podcast

In which I chat with the most estimble Ken Liu for the @futurologypod.bsky.social podcast. The general theme was translation across linguistic registers: from human to machine, between human languages, and between fiction, legal & mathematical writing youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZR9-y4ik8&feature=youtu.be

05.11.2025 05:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Book 44 of 2025: All That We See or Seem by @kyliu99.bsky.social. This was really great: a slick thriller loaded with commentary about social media, AI, and creativity.

05.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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If you're interested in a signed copy of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, a limited number are available at the Harvard Book Store and the MIT Press Bookstore. For online orders, leave a note in the form requesting a signed copy.

www.harvard.com/book/9781668...

mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781668...

03.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Fireside with Ken Liu - Award-Winning Sci-Fi Author · Zoom · Luma Join us for an exclusive Q&A with Ken Liu, award-winning author of speculative fiction! Ken (who also spoke at the Human Augmentation Summit) just released his…

I'm doing a Q&A about ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM with Dünya Baradari of Augmentation Lab today at 4:00 PM Eastern. Come and ask me questions!

luma.com/kxihbkyg

01.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

<3!

29.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Small bot vs entropy!
Nice job @kyliu99.bsky.social

Read the story here:
www.infinivoxsf.com/robots-ai-6
Pick up a copy!

FYI: The author's top-notch technothriller, All That We See or Seem, is out.
kenliu.name/blog/book/al...

29.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

This is very close to the plot of the new novel by @kyliu99.bsky.social.

28.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Excerpts from The Unauthorized Autobiography of Benjamin Brick This week, John P. Murphy brings us a terrifying look at identity, and ownership, in the not so distant future.

New story by @johnpmurphy.bsky.social in The Sunday Morning Transport:
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/excerpts-f...

I enjoyed this so much. I won't spoil it for you by saying more, but just think about it: how can an autobiography be unauthorized?

26.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Excerpts from The Unauthorized Autobiography of Benjamin Brick This week, John P. Murphy brings us a terrifying look at identity, and ownership, in the not so distant future.

Recommended: "Excerpts from the Unauthorized Autobiography of Benjamin Brick," by John Murphy in today's The Sunday Morning Transport:

www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/excerpts-f...

26.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Boston Book Festival 2025: Our Futures in Fragments: Reimagining To... View more about this event at Boston Book Festival 2025

Come to the Boston Book Festival today to see Tochi Onyebuchi and me talk about our new books on a panel moderated by Michelle Min Sterling: “Our Futures In Fragments.”

bostonbookfestival2025.sched.com/event/27cHt/...

25.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Are empty lots abandoned lots?
Touching tale by @kyliu99.bsky.social

Read the story!
www.infinivoxsf.com/robots-ai-6

FYI: Ken's new technothriller, All That We See or Seem, is out!
kenliu.name/blog/book/al...

18.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!!

17.10.2025 05:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3 hours to go!

16.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you David!

15.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM is now available on audio, narrated by Kat Cleave. Listen now wherever you enjoy audiobooks, from @simonaudio.bsky.social. bit.ly/4mkpZ2O

15.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Title page for K.A.Teryna's story collection BLACK HOLE HEART

Title page for K.A.Teryna's story collection BLACK HOLE HEART

Title page for @k-a-teryna.bsky.social 's BLACK HOLE HEART story collection, out today.

14.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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It's launch day for the US edition of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM!

What is the future for human art in the age of AI? What kind of AI is actually helpful? These are some of the questions driving this techno-thriller.

Get it from wherever you prefer to get your books.

@sagapressbooks.bsky.social

14.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 151    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 8

Thank you! :D

13.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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