Audiobooks by Ken Liu

Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One

"The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher. Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lewis, and Vitaliy Shushko. Full contents: Introduction by Tim Miller“Sonnie’s Edge” by Peter F. Hamilton“Three Robots” by John Scalzi“The Witness” by Alberto Mielgo“Suits” by Steve Lewis“Sucker of Souls” by Kirsten Cross“When the Yoghurt Took Over” by John Scalzi“Beyond the Aquila Rift” by Alastair Reynolds“Good Hunting” by Ken Liu“The Dump” by Joe R. Lansdale“Shape-Shifters” by Marko Kloos“Helping Hand” by Claudine Griggs“Fish Night” by Joe R. Lansdale“Lucky Thirteen” by Marko Kloos“Zima Blue” by Alistair Reynolds“Blind Spot” by Vitaliy Shushko“Ice Age” by Michael Swanwick“Alternate Histories” by John Scalzi“The Secret War” by David W. Amendola"

Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Amanda J. Spedding, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Geoff Brown, Joe R. Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steve Lewis, Tim Miller, Vitaliy Shushko (Author), Alex Boyles, Alex Picard, André Santana, Bradford Hastings, Cary Hite, Feodor Chin, Gary Tiedemann, Hillary Huber, Joel Simler, Josh Innerst, Julia Eve, Marcio Catalano, Nicole Cash, P. J. Ochlan, Tim Campbell (Narrator)

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The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI

"Today’s software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow? Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity. Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures are imagined by award-winning and bestselling human authors from the USA, UK, China, Ukraine, Chile, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka."

Alex Shvartsman, Ken Liu (Author), Aimee Reid, David Bendena, Hope Shangle, Jackie Meloche, Lauren Deporre, Lesa Lockford, Mark Owen, Nick Mondelli, Psalm Morant (Narrator)

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Diverse Energies

"“No one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed, but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. No one can doubt that cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge must lead to freedom of the mind and freedom of the soul.” —President John F. Kennedy, from a speech at University of California, March 23, 1962 In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful. In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds. Take a journey through time from a nuclear nightmare of the past to society’s far future beyond Earth with these eleven stories by masters of speculative fiction."

Cindy Pon, Daniel H. Wilson, Ph.D., Ellen Oh, Greg Van Eekhout, K. Tempest Bradford, Ken Liu, Malinda Lo, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rahul Kanakia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), Catherine Ho, James Chen, Jasmin Walker, Kurt Kanazawa, Neil Shah, Nick Walther, Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Narrator)

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Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2

"The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, features fifteen stars of tabletop roleplaying games and fantasy fiction, such as Gail Simone, Keith Baker, Veronica Roth, Ken Liu, Kate Elliott, Mike Shea, Tobias S. Buckell, Shanna Germain, Gabe Hicks, the Dungeon Dudes (Monty Martin & Kelly McLaughlin), Jeff Grubb, and more. Middle-Earth, Faerûn, Westeros, Eberron, The World of the Wheel, Exandria … these richly-detailed fantasy worlds have captured the imaginations of legions of fans worldwide. These settings offer worldbuilding that launched a thousand—or a thousand thousand—dreams. Whether you’re worldbuilding because you want to write the next Game of Thrones, intend to build a rich, vibrant world to enthrall the players of an upcoming tabletop RPG campaign, or you’re just curious to find out how all these creators did it, the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, puts a team of master world-architects at your side. Featuring practical essays and roadmaps for the intrepid worldbuilder to follow, this anthology shows you how to: - create a pantheon of gods - incorporate technology into your fantastical environments - build great settings that look beyond our own history and cultural expectations - design a world in just thirty minutes - leave space when building a world so the characters can help bring it alive What worlds await? Let’s find out!"

Gail Simone, Jeff Grubb, Keith Baker, Ken Liu, Veronica Roth (Author), Ray Greenley (Narrator)

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

"From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his latest science fiction and fantasy stories over the last five years sixteen of his best plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne. PRAISE FOR THE PAPER MENAGERIE: 'The Paper Menagerie is distinguished not only by its inventive imagination and emotional acuity it has, as a whole, an impressive and cumulative coherance ... The glittering wit on the surface of these pieces belies their righteous anger and profound melancholy' TLS. 'By the end of this collection, you return, blinking, into the sharp light of the here and now, and mourn those few short days when you were floating in Liu, heady with the thrill of a life in which your senses were sparked up like phosphorescent antennae to the wonders of our existence on this 'boat in space'' Big Issue. 'The Paper Menagerie will cement Liu as a once-in-a-lifetime author. Certainly his work is both stimulating and intoxicating and is the catalyst that sees contemporary Chinese fiction propelled to the forefront of sci-fi' 10/10, SciFiNow. 'When he's good, Liu is very very very good indeed' SFX. 'This captivating collection of award-winning short stories is full of wonder and magical realism' BuzzFeed"

Ken Liu (Author), Helen Vine (Narrator)

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Drowned Worlds

"The brand new anthology from multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan, featuring stories set in futures wracked by the deluge, from some the best writers in SF, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Jeffrey Ford, and James Morrow. We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time of Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we can't hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones looks more and more prescient when he sang that 'London is drowning and I, I live by the river!' all those years ago. And yet water is life. It brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises in its place. There has always been romance and adventure in the streets of a drowned London or on gorgeous sailing cities spanning a submerged world, sleek ships exploring as land gets ever rarer. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise, good or bad. Here you'll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard's The Drowned World, Sterling's Islands in the Net, and Ryman's The Child Garden. Stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Author bio: Jonathan Strahan is the multi-award winning editor of such anthologies as Engineering Infinity, Fearsome Magics, The Best of Science Fiction & Fantasy, The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other ground-breaking collections of the very finest genre fiction."

Charlie Jane Anders, James Morrow, Jeffrey Ford, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Paul Mcauley (Author), Ann Richardson, Basil Sands, Candice Moll, Fran Tunno, Jason Culp, Jay Aaseng, MiMi Chang, Michael G. Welch, Stacy Mitchell (Narrator)

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