This limited-participation session can only be joined by attendees who acquired a ticket through the supplemental event lottery.A small session for Q&A or just hanging out with Ken Liu.
Ken Liu (
http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other countries.
Liu’s debut novel,
The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series,
The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. His debut collection,
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. A second collection,
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, followed. He also wrote the Star Wars novel,
The Legends of Luke Skywalker.
He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. The most recent projects include “The Message,” under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode in season one of Netflix’s breakout adult animated series
Love, Death + Robots; and AMC’s
Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Liu. “The Hidden Girl” and
The Grace of Kings have also been optioned for development.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise.
Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
