Author
Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu)
Chen Qiufan (A.K.A. Stanley Chan) was born in Shantou, Guangdong province. Chan is a science fiction writer, columnist, script writer, and Technology start-up Noitom VP. Since 2004, he has published over thirty stories in People's Literature, Science Fiction World, Esquire, and Chutzpah!, many of which are collected in Thin Code and Future Disease. His debut novel, The Waste Tide, was published in January 2013 and won several awards including Chinese Nebula Best Novel and Huadi Award, was praised by Liu Cixin as "The pinnacle of near-future SF writing." Chan is the most widely translated young writer of science fiction in China, with his short works translated into English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, and Polish. They have been published in Tor, Clarkesworld, Interzone, Lightspeed, and F&SF;. He has won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award, China's Galaxy and Nebula Award, and a Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award along with Ken Liu. He lives in Beijing.
Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov�s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He also translated the Hugo-winning novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin.
Ken�s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silkpunk epic fantasy series published by Saga Press, is a finalist for the Nebula Award. Saga also published a collection of his short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, on March 8, 2016. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov�s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He also translated the Hugo-winning novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin.
Ken�s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silkpunk epic fantasy series published by Saga Press, is a finalist for the Nebula Award. Saga also published a collection of his short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, on March 8, 2016. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.