14 Facts About Ken Liu

Kenneth Yukun Liu was born on 1976 and is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.

Ken Liu has written a new scifi thriller series, Julia Z, which features a hacker with a specialty in AI and robotics.

Ken Liu spent his childhood with his grandparents and credits his grandmother as giving him a lifelong love of storytelling.

Ken Liu immigrated to the United States when he was 11 years old.

Ken Liu graduated from Waterford High School in 1994, where he ran cross-country and track.

Ken Liu later received his JD from Harvard Law School in 2004 and after working as a corporate lawyer, eventually became a high-tech litigation consultant.

Ken Liu's first published work was "Carthaginian Rose", a short story on mind uploading, part of The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1.

Ken Liu has written for the Star Wars universe, including the novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker, a series of Canterbury-tale like in-universe legends.

Ken Liu has worked as an editor, with two anthologies of translated Chinese fiction, Invisible Planets and Broken Stars.

Ken Liu's latest translation is a new rendition of Laozi's Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time.

Some of Ken Liu's work have been adapted into visual media.

Ken Liu's latest work is a series of scifi thrillers, starting with All That We See or Seem, featuring a young hacker named Julia Z The series engages with the impact of AI, and in particular its consequences on the arts, the law, and other aspects of everyday life.

Ken Liu frequently speaks at conferences, think tanks, and universities on a variety of topics related to the evolving nature of work, machine-augmented creativity, and other aspects of futurism.

Ken Liu translated Hao Jingfang's novelette, "Folding Beijing," which won a Hugo in 2016.