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Just 3 weeks until the launch of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM in the US! RF Kuang and I will discuss the book at the Brattle Theatre on launch day (10/14). Get your tickets now, which will get you a signed hardcover of the book. Thank you, and I hope to see you there! www.harvard.com/event/ken-liu

UFO10 will be invading soon. Sign up now to get notified and don't miss out on all the hilarity! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

All That We See Or Seem is scheduled to come out in the US on 10/14! Come celebrate with me and RF Kuang at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge and get a copy of the signed book. www.harvard.com/event/ken-liu

I have a new story out today! (Co-written with @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social).

"What if us making physical media cool again is part of the project of repairing the world the Boomers broke?" tochionyebuchi.substack.com/p/cant-see-c...

Coming next week, a new collaboration @kyliu99.bsky.social and I wrote! It will be my first appearance in Reactor :)

ICYMI

By coincidence, my Computational Story Lab research partner, working on LLM issues, is one Julia Z. She just got her PhD and has just started as a post-doc at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute. I will be ordering your book today.

Come celebrate with me for the launch of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM on October 14 at 6:00 PM at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where I'll be in conversation with RF Kuang! Ticket gets you a copy of the signed book. (Thank you to Harvard Book Store.) www.harvard.com/event/ken-liu

🪐📚💙 #currentlyreading ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM by @kyliu99.bsky.social Thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social for the ARC. 70% of the way through and am loving it so far. 😍 If you love techy sci-fi thrillers, you'll want to read this book.

If you are a B&N Rewards Member, you can pre-order ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM from 9/3-9/5 for 25% off! Use the code PREORDER25. #BNPreOrder (includes audiobook and eBook) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-that-w...

Mark Lawrence asked 4 authors to write flash stories and generated 4 more stories using ChatGPT 5. Then he asked readers to vote and see if they could tell which ones were AI-authored. I have much to say about this, but for now, go try it yourself. mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/so-i...

For exploration, first contact & microbiology, as well as friendships, love & ship AIs, check out this sci-fi novella, ELLIPSES, by D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social Please support the Kickstarter from Infinivox www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

A few comments about what I'll call "1 book in x volumes" series as opposed to episodic standalone volume series (like mysteries). No one needs to buy anything they don't want to. That said, it can harm, even kill, a midlist writer's career if people refuse to (say) buy book 1 until book 3 is out.

I share early buzz and preorder links for ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM in the latest issue of my newsletter. kenliu.substack.com/p/early-buzz...

to clarify, the point I'm making here is that there are world builders out here who are in fact doing the work listed below, yet often the discourse ignores their work in favor of complaining about authors who aren't doing it as if they (the non doers) are the only ones who exist

Again: for the amount of money these guys had to throw around, they could have hired legions of writers to produce top-quality, bespoke training data to give them multiple distinct advantages over their competitors, while incidentally becoming one of the largest patrons of the arts in history.

"We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" is one of the best stories I've ever read. It's one of only a very few stories that I would give a 10/10. (Yes, I'm very stingy with 10/10s.) At the very least, please make sure to read it! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

Last day to enter the Goodreads giveaway for ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Let's talk about books baybeeeeeee!! Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...

Check out the latest episode of DataFramed, where we talk about scifi, AI, and why stories matter. www.datacamp.com/podcast/what...

Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter features solicited short story writers Christopher Caldwell, P. Djèlí Clark, AnaMaria Curtis, Tananarive Due, A.T. Greenblatt, and Stephen Graham Jones! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ

Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter also features solicited short story writers Angela Liu, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Pinsker, and John Wiswell! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ

My Readercon schedule! Should be a fun time. That reading will be from my work in progress, BTW. Be the first people to hear it!

There's a Goodreads giveaway of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, scheduled for publication on 10/14. Sign up for it here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Sure, some celebrity will use AI to “write” an (utterly unreadable) autobiography, and it will become a bestseller. But that says more about what it means to be a “bestseller” than about AI.

Does anyone else really enjoy writing the villain's POV? I get so gleeful sometimes as I come up with The Plan that I start doing the villain laugh. Just me? Oh. (Shuffles away...)

Congratulations to @kyliu99.bsky.social whose "Good Stories" won the inaugural Art of the Near Future award! The story originally appeared in The Digital Aesthete anthology and can be read for free at future-sf.com. spheresofpossibility.substack.com/p/art-near-f...

Heads up! Leftover special edition sets of The Dandelion Dynasty Midnight Editions by Ken Liu will go on general sale on Wednesday 28th May at 1pm BST 💜📚

If you’re a reviewer, here’s how you can get a review copy of my new novel!

New story day!!! "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" is in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, now available online, and I'm so excited to share it with you! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...

My latest newsletter is out. If you haven’t done so already, please subscribe. It’s free, and it’s the best way to hear directly from me, stay connected, and updated on what I’m doing. kenliu.name/mailing-list/

A little Harmattan Season. As a treat.

We're hosting a charity reading to assist one of my dear friends and writing community members with recovery from a devastating house fire. Readers include the wonderful @kyliu99.bsky.social, @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social, and @hickswriter.bsky.social.

Do you love seeing new faces, diverse voices, and great stories in SF, fantasy, and horror? Me too. Locus tells the storytellers’ stories, and that’s why I’ve chosen to donate to their 2025 fundraiser. Are you in? Search for my name under Perks: a Zoom chat for donors. igg.me/at/locusmag2...

SCREAMINGGG. THANK YOU Ken Liu and Saga Press for this advanced copy of All That We See or Seem. This is one of my MOST anticipated reads of the year and I'm so excited for this science fiction thriller that blurs the lines between AI and the dreamscape.

For readers in the UK, THE VEILED THRONE is a Kindle Monthly Deal for May! www.amazon.co.uk/Veiled-Thron...

Today is the last day for Nebula Award voting! SFWA members, don't forget to go and vote for what you loved!!! www.sfwa.org/forum/ballots/

I wasn't going to post a single thing on Bluesky today because I'm working working working, but how could I resist sharing this book mail that just arrived??? Stoked!

We love our indie bookstores over here at Saga Press and are excited to spread that love and to support the backbones of our literary communities! Join us to share, shop, and support! #independentbookstoreday #shoplocal

I'm part of a charity reading to help an MFA student rebuild after a Christmas Day 2024 fire. Detailed info below:

The UK cover of All That We See Or Seem! (UK release Oct 9)

I spoke with @kyliu99.bsky.social, who tells me his upcoming sci-fi thriller was inspired by his thoughts on “the future of human art in the age of AI.” www.thefrontlist.org/p/scoop-ken-...

If you preorder ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM from B&N as a rewards member, you get 25% off. (Code: PREORDER25)

For the first time in many, many years, I've made a donation to my alma mater. They do many things wrong, but on this one, they're right.

I have ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM ARCs to give away! open.substack.com/pub/kenliu/p...

As many of you peeps know, I have a fantasy duology coming out this year. Whoo! THE WITCH ROADS arrives in June (and THE NAMELESS LAND in November). If you have a podcast/vidcast/streaming, etc and would like to interview me, please contact Tor Books publicity OR me (info here: imakeupworlds.com )

Was re-reading Jane Addams's "Why the Ward Boss Rules" (1898). Found it quite applicable to today. No pull quotes here because she didn't write in an age that prioritized soundbites. The whole is the argument. www.usd116.org/ProfDev/AHTC...