Ken Liu Books in Order

Thirty-four stories and poems drawn from Electric Velocipede's twelve-year run bring together speculative work by many contributors. The anthology includes an editor's foreword and an introduction, gathering selections from a magazine devoted to unusual science fiction and fantasy.

In colonial Shanghai during the May Fourth Movement, Dorothy and a makeshift band of allies search for the Great Oz. This steampunk reimagining of Oz follows their efforts to protect a revolution from the Wicked Warlord.

Edited by Erin Underwood and Nancy Holder, this anthology gathers fifteen previously published science-fiction stories for young adults. Ken Liu joins contributors exploring altered histories, alien relationships, virtual encounters, and decisions that shape unfamiliar futures.

Edited by Jonathan Strahan, this annual anthology gathers science-fiction and fantasy short stories selected from 2014 publications. Its broad lineup includes work by Ken Liu, Joe Abercrombie, Kai Ashante Wilson, Lauren Beukes, Paolo Bacigalupi, and other established and emerging genre writers.

Bandit Kuni Garu and nobleman's son Mata Zyndu become allies in a rebellion against Dara's emperor. Their shared struggle for freedom gives way to competing visions of leadership as each considers what justice should mean.

Edited by Margret Helgadottir, this illustrated horror anthology gathers stories and artwork from across Asia. It includes Ken Liu's Good Hunting and his translation of Xia Jia's A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight among varied encounters with monsters.

Now emperor of Dara, Kuni Garu struggles to balance reform with the demands of governing a fragile empire. An invasion from the distant Lyucu forces him to rely on his grown children to face the threat.

A freighter crew shares six stories about Luke Skywalker, each offering a different perspective on the legendary Jedi. Their tales mix rumor, personal experience, and myth while exploring how ordinary beings understand a galaxy-changing hero.

Allan Kaster edits this collection of hard science-fiction stories published in 2016, featuring Mars expeditions, software threats, and technological transformations. Ken Liu's Seven Birthdays follows a daughter's efforts to honor her mother through climate-changing engineering projects.

This Allan Kaster anthology collects hard science-fiction stories from 2018, ranging from game characters seeking escape to hazardous planetary expeditions. Ken Liu's Cosmic Spring follows an artificial intelligence trying to understand a universe whose stars are dying.

Gui removes painful memories from personal possessions, although he cannot sense those memories himself. Sisters Clara and Beatrice respond differently to their shared past, and a newly uncovered memory challenges what they wish to preserve or erase.

Stories of time-traveling assassins, online cruelty, artificial intelligence, and troubled family bonds examine what it means to be human. Characters confront changing technologies and uncertain futures while struggling to maintain connection, identity, and compassion in worlds transformed around them.

Princess Théra leads a fleet beyond the Wall of Storms to challenge the Lyucu on unfamiliar ground. In Dara, rival leaders and families maneuver within new regimes as conquerors and conquered develop plans for their futures.

As wars continue on opposite sides of an ocean, Théra and Takval struggle to preserve a shared dream under pursuit. Dara's people confront the Lyucu while competing visions of the future test alliances, loyalties, and hope.

Hacker Julia Z abandons digital obscurity to help a lawyer rescue his kidnapped wife, a performer who creates shared dream experiences. The kidnappers’ demand draws Julia into virtual realities and criminal secrets that threaten both the missing artist and her own mind.

As humanity leaves Earth for the stars, a young woman tries to preserve the magical forest she loved in childhood. Her effort to carry that treasured place into a digital future raises questions about what survival and preservation really mean.

A painter searches for inspiration while fearing her artistic failure in the title story of this speculative collection. Other tales explore humanity’s distant futures, artificial intelligence, and the difficult gap between communicating an experience and having another person understand it.

Ken Liu collects speculative stories exploring memory, identity, history, and humanity's changing possibilities, including the title tale about a mother's living paper animals. Other selections consider historical investigation, space travel, cultural encounters, and the forms stories can take.