Science Fiction. Short Stories. Speculative Fiction.

#invisibleplanets #cixinliu #kenliu #scifi #speculativefiction #shortstory #xiajia #chenquifan #anthology #china🇨🇳 #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram

I've noticed I've been reading a lot more lately. I think its providing an escape from this dystopian cesspool that is 'Murica at the moment.

Last month I finished a Murakami novel (Killing Commendatore) and now I'm wrapping up the first book in The Dandelion Dynasty (The Grace of Kings). Killing Commendatore was enthralling and I love how Murakami puts these rather boring main characters into Kafka-esque worlds and scenarios. Not to mention the music selection is great. First time I ever listened to opera music and read a novel.

Currently hooked on the Dandelion Dynasty and plan on reading the rest of the series. I discovered Ken Liu as he translated Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem series (also highly recommend) and I finally started reading his works. Great start so far.

If you have any suggestions on what I should add to the queue, send them over!

#Books
#Bookstadon
#TheDandelionDynasty
#HarukiMurakami
#KillingCommendatore
#KenLiu

The Literomancer by Ken Liu is a short story about how little girls are mean and middle aged men are even meaner.

Okay, no it's not, that's a terrible summary. But it is a captivating, emotionally-charged story from The Paper Menagerie, which I have just added to my list of favorites.

#shortfiction #shortstories #literature #kenliu #thepapermenagerie

Il y aura bien une deuxième saison de Pantheon, basée sur l'œuvre de Ken Liu, sur Netflix ! ➡https://shorturl.at/mZzDi

Qui a regardé ?

#KenLiu #Netflix #Sciencefiction

A Book for Our Time, written in 400 BC (only $2 on sale 🤗)

If you want to get away from our present world, check out Laozi’s ‘Dao De Jing’, “a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and prized ideology over experience

By speaking out against the cleverness of elites and the arrogance of the learned, Laozi upheld the wisdom of the concrete, the humble, the quotidian, the everyday individual dismissed by the great powers of the world.”

Translated by #KenLiu (who also translated ‘#TheThreeBodyProblem’)

#Laozi #DaoDeJing #Books
https://www.amazon.com/Laozis-Dao-Jing-Interpretation-Transformative-ebook/dp/B0CL5FGJG4

[Updated!] Which new #books are you most looking forward to in 2025? 📚Here are some of mine (in publication order):

* The Sinners All Bow by #KateWinklerDawson (history/true crime)

* The Mask of Fear by #AlexanderFreed (#StarWars/media tie-in)

* Broken Fields by #MarcieRendon (mystery/Indigenous) #CashBlackbear series

* Oathbound by #TracyDeonn (YA fantasy) #Legendborn series

* Sunrise on the Reaping by #SuzanneCollins (YA dystopia/science fiction) #HungerGames series

* School of Shards by #SergeyDyachenko & #MarinaDyachenko (dark academia/SFF in translation) #VitaNostra trilogy

* All That We See or Seem by #KenLiu (science fiction/techno-thriller)

** Also, This Book Will Bury Me by #AshleyWinstead (crime fiction/mystery) would be on this list, but I had the good fortune to read an ARC this year. 👍👍

#Bookstodon #BookRecs #2025Books

I binged season 1 of Pantheon on Netflix this weekend, and wow! was it good. This is some of the best Singularity SF ever done. I read Ken Liu’s short stories it was based on before it came out. Those are also very good. #singularity #pantheon #netflix #kenliu

I binged season 1 of Pantheon on Netflix this weekend, and wow! was it good. This is some of the best Singularity SF ever done. I read Ken Liu’s short stories it was based on before it came out. Those are also very good. #singularity #pantheon #netflix #kenliu

At UT Dallas for a lecture by Ken Liu titled "What 19th-Century Photography Can Tell Us About Artificial Intelligence".

#KenLiu #UTDallas #UTD

Book 52 of 2024 is "The Grace of Kings" by Ken Liu.

Edit: finished 5th October.

#CurrentlyReading #Bookstodon #KenLiu #TheGraceOfKings #TheDandelionDynasty

New book purchases!

"The Grace of Kings" by Ken Liu.
"Witherward" by Hannah Matthewson.
"Written" by Ben Galley.
"The Black Coast" by Mike Brooks.

#TheGraceOfKings #KenLiu #Witherward #HannahMatthewson #Written #BenGalley #TheBlackCoast #MikeBrooks #bookstodon

Urlaubslektüre No 1: "The Wall of Storms" von #KenLiu . Band 2 seiner Reihe arg dicker Bücher über ein vage asiatisches Großreich, immer im Wechsel zwischen Vogelperspektive, historischem Überblick und dicht an prägenden Figuren. Abenteuerroman, Historie, Meditation über Fortschritt, Krieg, Technik, Klassik, Kunst. Dazu witzig und human. Wenn man mal merken will, wie arschöde #fantasy sonst ist. Hier lohnen sich 900 S. mal richtig. Das bessere Game of Thrones. #literatur #pnpde

Grabbed this 2016 collection while at the Eastside library before lunch. Read the Preface with my sandwich and chips.

> For me, fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors — which is the logic of narratives in general — over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

#KenLiu #fiction #Bookstodon (?)

Twelve Tomorrows is currently $1.99 on Kindle in the U.S. #ScienceFiction #SFF #Bookstodon #EBookDeal

From a strange new virtual currency to an AI’s unexpected evolution, explore the future in this thought-provoking collection from authors like #KenLiu and #NnediOkorafor. Hailed upon publication as “probably the best science fiction anthology of the year” (World Fantasy Award–winning editor Jonathan Strahan).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BT2BSWZ

If you like SciFi and are interested in Chinese authors beyond Liu Cixin check out Hao Jingfang.

Also the collection of Chinese SF short stories translated by Ken Liu - “Invisible Planets”

#SciFi #ThreeBody #KenLiu

Just finished Ken Liu’s compilation and translation of Chinese science fiction short stories “Invisible Planets”

Some great stories with profound meanings. I often find short stories to trigger more emotion and insight than full novels. Essays at the end of the book are very insightful.

Wonderful collection this one.

Next up is Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #KenLiu

I just finished Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem (the first book). I'm generally not a huge SF fan but really enjoyed it.
I also loved this sentence in Ken Liu's "Translator's Postscript", it's such a beautiful way to describe literary translation.

#Translation #KenLiu #CixinLiu #TheThreeBodyProblem

It’s not too late to attend Speculating Our AI Future with #CoryDoctorow (Virtual), an event by Illinois Libraries Present featuring #MarthaWells and #KenLiu !

Link to info about it: https://www.illinoislibrariespresent.com/events

Visit an #Illinois public library’s event schedule to register

Starts in about 20 minutes

#AI #Futurism #Libraries #LibraryEvent #ArtificialIntelligence #AIFuture #MachineLearning #bookstodon

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