Ken Liu

Ken Liu

刘宇昆

(c) Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0
Data i miejsce urodzenia	1976 Lanzhou
Narodowość	amerykańska
Dziedzina sztuki	literatura
Ważne dzieła
Papierowa menażeria
Strona internetowa

Ken Liu (chiń. 刘宇昆; pinyin Liú Yǔkūn; ur. 1976 w Lanzhou w Chinach) – amerykański pisarz, autor utworów science fiction i fantasy oraz tłumacz chińskiej literatury fantastycznej na język angielski^[1].

Jego opowiadanie Papierowa menażeria było pierwszym utworem, który zdobył jednocześnie nagrody Hugo, Nebula oraz World Fantasy Award^[2]. Liu jest trzykrotnym zdobywcą Hugo, w tym w 2015 wspólnie z autorem za tłumaczenie powieści Liu Cixina Problem trzech ciał – była to pierwsza nagroda Hugo przyznana za utwór napisany w języku innym niż angielski^[3].

Życiorys

Liu urodził się w 1976 roku w Lanzhou w Chinach. W wieku 11 lat wyemigrował do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Początkowo mieszkał w Palo Alto w Kalifornii, a następnie przeprowadził się do Waterford w stanie Connecticut.

Studiował język angielski na Harvard College i zanim uzyskał tytuł naukowy w Harvard Law School pracował w branży technologicznej. Następnie rozpoczął pracę w dziedzinie prawa podatkowego^[4].

Obecnie mieszka w Massachusetts z żoną Lisą Tang Liu i dwiema córkami. Zadebiutował w 2015 roku książką z gatunku epickiego fantasy z elementami silkpunku^[5] pod tytułem Królowie Dary.^[6]

Powieść i Opowiadania

Cykl Pod sztandarem Dzikiego Kwiatu:

• Królowie Dary (SQN, 2016)^[7]
• Ściana Burz (SQN, 2017)
• The Veiled Throne (Saga Press, 2021)^[8]
• Speaking Bones (Saga Press, 2021)

Opowiadania przetłumaczone na język polski:

• Algorytm miłości (Nowa Fantastyka nr 346 - 7/2011)
• Człowiek, który zakończył historię: dokument (Fantastyka - Wydanie Specjalne nr 37)
• Zapisane w węzłach (Nowa Fantastyka nr 355 - 4/2012)
• Papierowa menażeria (Nowa Fantastyka nr 357 - 6/2012), (Przekrój nr 3573 - 2/2021)
• Mono no aware (Nowa Fantastyka nr 369 - 6/2013)
• Fale (Nowa Fantastyka nr 372 - 9/2013)
• Odrodzenie (Nowa Fantastyka nr 383 - 8/2014)
• Białe konopne rękawy (Nowa Fantastyka nr 395 - 8/2015)
• Kasandra (Nowa Fantastyka nr 400 - 1/2016)
• W pętli (Nowa Fantastyka nr 402 - 3/2016)
• Pyłowy ogród (Nowa Fantastyka nr 412 - 1/2017)
• Zaraza (Nowa Fantastyka nr 422 - 11/2017)
• Bogowie nie umarli na próżno (Nowa Fantastyka nr 427 - 4/2018)
• Siedem urodzin (Nowa Fantastyka nr 433 - 10/2018)
• Najpiękniejsze chwile (Nowa Fantastyka nr 449 - 2/2020)
• Ukryta dziewczyna (Księga Mieczy, antologia, Zysk i S-ka, 2018)^[9][10] (online, eng.), Lightspeed Magazine, November 2019
• Lektura na lato (Nowa Fantastyka nr 463 - 4/2021)

Pozostałe opowiadania - dostępne on-line w języku angielskim

• “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” — Uncanny, November 3, 2020 (online), [Uncanny Magazine] November/December 2020.
• "The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2014
• "Presence" (online), Uncanny, November/December 2014
• "Running Shoes" (online), SQ Mag, Issue 16, September 2014
• "Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon" (online), Kaleidoscope, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, August 2014
• "Lecture 14: Concerning the Event Cloaking Device and Practical Applications Thereof" (online), Cosmos, April 2014
• "What Is Expected of a Wedding Host" (online), Daily Science Fiction, February 2014
• "The Reborn" (online), Tor.com, January 2014
• "Second Chance" (online), Nature, January 2014
• "The Clockwork Soldier" (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2014
• "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, August 2013
• "The Perfect Match" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012
• "Good Hunting", (online), Strange Horizons, October 9, 2012
• "The Illusionist" (online), Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi, Issue 4, June 2, 2012
• "Mono no aware", The Future is Japanese, May 15, 2012; republished (online), Lightspeed Magazine, June 2013
• "The Tome of Tourmaline" (online), Daily Science Fiction, May 9, 2012
• "Intelligent Design" (online), Schrodinger's Mouse, April 2012
• "Monkeys" (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, April 19, 2012
• "Memories of My Mother" (online), Daily Science Fiction, March 19, 2012
• "All the Flavors" (online), GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012
• "The Five Elements of the Heart Mind" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, January 24, 2012
• "Life Plus Seventy" (online), Kasma SF, November 23, 2011
• "Staying Behind" (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, October 1, 2011
• "The Last Seed" (online), Daily Science Fiction, September 26, 2011
• "The Box That Eats Memories" (online), Daily Science Fiction, August 10, 2011
• "Ad Block", (online), Kasma SF, March 19, 2011
• "The Visit" (online), On the Premises, March 2011 (Issue 13)
• "Simulacrum" (online), Lightspeed Magazine, February 15, 2011
• "To the Stars" (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, co-written with Shelly Li, February 3, 2011
• "Tying Knots" (online), Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2011
• "Saving Face" (online), Crossed Genres, co-written with Shelly Li, January 1, 2011
• "The Letter" (online), Every Day Fiction, December 5, 2010
• "The Phoenix" (online), On the Premises, July 2010 (Issue 11)
• "Beneath the Language" (online), On the Premises, July 2007 (Issue 2)
• "The Algorithms for Love" (online), Strange Horizons, July 2004; International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, July 2012;
• "The Ussuri Bear" (online), Originally published in THE BEAST WITHIN 4, edited by Jennifer Brozek, 2014

Opowiadania niedostępne on-line w języku angielskim

• The Cleaners, December 15, 2020^[11] is a magic realist story about cleansing memories.
• "The Sith of Datawork", From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars), October 3, 2017
• "Saboteur", Analog, December 2014
• "The Regular", Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke, September 2014
• "The Gods Will Not Be Slain", The End is Now (Book II of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, September 2014
• "Homo Florensis", Solaris Rising 3, August 2014
• "In the Loop", War Stories, edited by Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates, August 2014
• (with Lisa Tang Liu) "Hark! Listen to the Animals", Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9, July 2014
• "What I Assume You Shall Assume", Dead Man's Hand, edited by John Joseph Adams, May 2014
• "Knotting Grass, Holding Ring", Long Hidden, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, May 2014
• "The Ten Suns", Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse, March 2014
• "The Gods Will Not Be Chained", The End is Nigh (Book I of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, March 2014
• "None Owns the Air", Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014
• "You'll Always Have the Burden With You", republished, Perihelion Science Fiction, December 2013
• "The Plague", Nature, May 16, 2013
• "The Messenger's Tale", Aoife's Kiss, Issue 43, Winter 2012/2013 issue, December 2012
• "The Perfect Book", Analog, December 2012 issue, September 22, 2012
• "Arc", F&SF, September/October issue, September 2012
• "Summer Reading", Daily Science Fiction, September 4, 2012
• "Cutting", Electric Velocipede, Issue 24, July 30, 2012
• "You'll Always Have the Burden With You", In Situ, Dagan Books, July 10, 2012
• "Dear Emily", The Memory Eater Anthology, July 5, 2012
• "The Silk Merchant", Apex, Issue 38, July 3, 2012
• "Celestial Bodies", Nature, June 28, 2012
• "Real Faces", F&SF, July/August issue, June 22, 2012
• "The Shadowcrafter", Nine, Issue 1, April 2012
• "To the Moon", Fireside, April 17, 2012
• "Maxwell's Demon", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2012
• "The People of Pele", Asimov's, February 2012
• "The Last Summer", 10 Flash, January 2012
• "The Necrocracy", Penumbra, December 2011
• "The Countable", Asimov's, December 2011
• "Justice FAIRBOT", 140 And Counting, edited by Joanne Merriam, December 11, 2011
• "Safe Empathy", Daily Science Fiction, November 21, 2011
• "Golden Years in the Paleozoic", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #52, September 2011
• "Real Artists", TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review
• "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary", Panverse Three, edited by Dario Ciriello, September 2011
• "Music of the Spheres", Mirror Shards: Exploring the Edges of Augmented Reality (Volume One), 2011
• "Hark! Listen to the Animals", The ePocalypse: e-mails at the end, co-written with Lisa Tang Liu, August 2011
• "The Caretaker", Digital Science Fiction, June 2011
• "Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011.
• "The Paper Menagerie" The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011.
• "The Chase", Every Day Fiction, January 28, 2011
• "The Literomancer", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2010
• "Beidou (??)", The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, May 2010.
• "Single-Bit Error", Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, 2009 (read) (buy); International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, December 2013;
• "State Change", Polyphony 4, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, September 2004.
• "Gossamer", Writers of the Future, Vol. 19, 2003.
• "Carthaginian Rose", Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1, edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa, 2002.

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