17 hour global SF conference to benefit the 4th International PKD fest. $10- interviews, lectures, panel, come & go all day long. @kyliu99.bsky.social @rudytheelder.bsky.social @johnshirley2024.bsky.social , Sarah Langan, @brianevenson.bsky.social, Ray Nayler, @lavietidhar.bsky.social +more TBA
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Definitely go hear John's reading. This story is so good.
Folks at @boskone.bsky.social tomorrow: at 6:30 in Independence, I'll be reading my short story "Excerpts from the Unauthorized Autobiography of Benjamin Brick", recently of @morningtransport.bsky.social
It's one of my favorites, and links nicely with the Saturday panel on brains in jars...
Thanks to the Dedham Library, I'll be doing a FREE local author event there this Wednesday, Feb 4, at 6:30 PM! More info at the link below (registration optional).
dedhamlibrary.com/event/15648774
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Catching up on 2025 stories for the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social poll?
“Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War” was inspired by (among other things): bees, the Winchester Mystery House, & the architecture of Jeanne Gang.
I'd love for you to read it!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...
the pitch went like this
ken liu: "hey christina, can i write — "
me: "you can do whatever you want forever"
ok new pinned thingie incoming with a cover this time
upcoming book! preorders live! all the things! :)
oh and there's a goodreads giveaway happening right now, omg I am bad at this www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
"Why is science fiction so bad at predicting the future, even as we continue to use science fiction terms to describe reality?"
Author @kyliu99.bsky.social tracks a brief history of human innovation and science fiction as myth-making:
Day 3 of showing you the awesome artwork laid out in the pages of our very first print issue. Today @oldragingbarbarian.bsky.social brings Love's Mirror by @kyliu99.bsky.social to life.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad you're enjoying it! Second book already turned in. There will be more Julia Z!
There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now:
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
Award-winning #author of the Dandelion Dynasty @kyliu99.bsky.social discusses his new near-future thriller 'All That We See or Seem' which centres around a young hacker.
Read the interview: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Signed books make great holiday gifts! A small number of signed copies of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM are available at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social and the MIT Press Book Store.
www.harvard.com/book/9781668...
mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781668...
Just put "signed copy pls" in comments/notes.
I'll be at Symposium Books, Providence, RI, tomorrow (12/13) at 4:00 PM to talk about ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM and sign books! If you're around, I hope to see you.
symposiumbooks.com/event/2025-1...
Get your holiday shopping sorted while supporting small presses! UFO is running a warehouse clearance sale for a few more days.
alexshvartsman.com/2025/11/28/u...
For folks doing their award reading (or just looking to stock up for some quiet reading time) maybe I offer these two short stories?
SFWA members! Nebula nominations are open, and I'd be honored if you consider my work for your ballot. This year I had a short story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, & a novelette (w/ @kyliu99.bsky.social ) in @reactorsff.bsky.social ...
Well, OwlCrate did this edition right.
All That We See or Seem by @kyliu99.bsky.social
#BookMail #BookSky
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!
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.
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.
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!
“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
These stories are peak. Go read them; you'll thank me.
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...
