Two men rebel together against tyranny--and then become rivals--in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR.

Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions--two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.

Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection--including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.

With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken's award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), Mono No Aware (Hugo Award winner), The Waves (Nebula Award finalist), The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), All the Flavors (Nebula Award finalist), The Litigation Master and the Monkey King (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre's history, The Paper Menagerie (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).

Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.

I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I'm reading Ken Liu's stories, I feel like I'm reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I'm in awe. --Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author

Captivating. --BuzzFeed
Extraordinary. --The Washington Post
Brilliant. --The Chicago Tribune

With the release of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu's short fiction has resonated with a generation of readers.

From stories about time-traveling assassins, to Black Mirror-esque tales of cryptocurrency and internet trolling, to heartbreaking narratives of parent-child relationships, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is a far-reaching work that explores topical themes from the present and a visionary look at humanity's future.

This collection includes a selection of Liu's speculative fiction stories over the past five years--seventeen of his best--plus a new novelette. In addition, it also features an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, the third book in Liu's epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty.

Stories include:
Ghost Days; Maxwell's Demon; The Reborn; Thoughts and Prayers; Byzantine Empathy; The Gods Will Not Be Chained; Staying Behind; Real Artists; The Gods Will Not Be Slain; Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer; The Gods Have Not Died in Vain; Memories of My Mother; Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit--Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts; Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard; A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty); The Hidden Girl; Seven Birthdays; The Message; Cutting

The concluding book of The Dandelion Dynasty begins immediately after the events of The Veiled Throne, in the middle of two wars on two lands among three people separated by an ocean yet held together by the invisible strands of love.

Harried by Lyucu pursuers, Princess Théra and Pékyu Takval try to reestablish an ancestral dream even as their hearts grow in doubt. The people of Dara continue to struggle against the genocidal Lyucu as both nations vacillate between starkly contrasting visions for their futures. Even the gods cannot see through the Wall of Storms, for only mortal hearts can decide mortal fates.

Award-winning author Ken Liu fulfills the covenants first laid out a decade ago in a series delving deep into the connection between national myths and national constitutions in this magnificent fantasy epic (NPR).

In the much-anticipated sequel to the magnificent fantasy epic (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.

Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara, but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and his vision. Then an unexpected invading force from the Lyucu empire in the far distant west comes to the shores of Dara--and chaos results.

But Emperor Kuni cannot go and lead his kingdom against the threat himself with his recently healed empire fraying at the seams, so he sends the only people he trusts to be Dara's savvy and cunning hopes against the invincible invaders: his children, now grown and ready to make their mark on history.

Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction.

The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang, add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, some have garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year's Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu's personal favorites.

To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest in international science fiction will find Invisible Planets an indispensable addition to their collection.

For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Broken Stars.

Stories:
The Year of the Rat by Chen Qiufan
The Fist of Lijian by Chen Qiufan
The Flower of Shazui by Chen Qiufan
A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia
Tongtong's Summer by Xia Jia
Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse by Xia jia
The City of Silence by Ma Boyong
Invisible Planets by Hao Jingfang
Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang
Call Girl by Tang Fei
Grave of the Fireflies by Cheng Jingbo
The Circle by Liu Cixin
Taking Care of God by Liu Cixin

Essays:
The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three-Body and Chinese Science Fiction by Liu Cixin and Ken Liu
The Torn Generation Chinese Science Fiction in a Culture in Transition by Chen Qiufan and Ken Liu
What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese? by Xia Jia and Ken Liu

Princess Th ra, once known as Empress na of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gond to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset by adversity, Th ra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable?

In Dara, the Lyucu leadership as well as the surviving Dandelion Court bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and P kyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will take years to bloom. Will tradition yield to new justifications for power?

Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the wind, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new age.

Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from the Aeneid to the Romance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY

Sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fiction writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.

In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin's 'Moonlight, ' a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. Hao Jingfang's 'The New Year Train' sees 1,500 passengers go missing on a train that vanishes into space. In the title story by Tang Fei, a young girl is shown how the stars can reveal the future.

In addition, three essays explore the history and rise of Chinese science fiction publishing, contemporary Chinese fandom, and how the growing interest in Chinese SF has impacted writers who had long laboured in obscurity.

By turns dazzling, melancholy and thought-provoking, Broken Stars celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of SFF voices emerging from China.

Stories include:
Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia
The Snow of Jinyang by Zhang Ran
Broken Stars by Tang Fei
Submarines by Han Song
Salinger and the Koreans by Han Song
Under a Dangling Sky by Cheng Jingbo
What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu
The New Year Train by Hao Jingfang
The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales by Fei Dao
Moonlight by Liu Cixin
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge by Anna Wu
The First Emperor's Games by Ma Boyong
Reflection by Gu Shi
The Brain Box by Regina Kanyu Wang
Coming of the Light by Chen Qiufan
A History of Future Illnesses by Chen Qiufan

Essays:
A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and Fandom, by Regina Kanyu Wang,
A New Continent for China Scholars: Chinese Science Fiction Studies by Mingwei Song
Science Fiction: Embarrassing No More by Fei Dao

For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Invisible Planets.

Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the orphan hacker, is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb.

But when a lawyer named Piers--whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals--barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly created at risk as she can't walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle. Elli is an onierofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee's waking dream and providing an emotionally resonant and narrative experience. While attendees' dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also providing a one-on-one dream experience for the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he's demanding his dreams in return for Elli.

Unraveling the real and unreal leads Julia on an adventure that takes her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche.

The Long List Anthology volume 7 collects 24 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From lonely haunted houses to invincible mechsuits, from body-lending gigwork to Fae ransom letters, from space pirate radio to interstellar disputes over art ownership. There is something here for everyone.

The following stories are in the anthology:
50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know by Ken Liu
AirBody by Sameem Siddiqui
The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford
Open House On Haunted Hill by John Wiswell
This is New Gehesran Calling by Rebecca Fraimow
The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign by Cora Buhlert
A Being Together Amongst Total Strangers by Arkady Martine
Sinew and Steel and What They Told by Carrie Vaughn
My Country Is a Ghost by Eugenia Triantafyllou
In This, At Least, We Are Alike by Caitlin Starling
The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly by Alix E. Harrow
Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise by Lauren Ring
The Salt Witch by Martha Wells
Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City by Arula Ratnakar
Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo by Catherynne M. Valente
Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen McHugh
An Important Failure by Rebecca Campbell
City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat by Usman T. Malik
If You Take My Meaning by Charlie Jane Anders
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa With Gun and Camera by Elizabeth Bear
A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential by Neon Yang
The Bahrain Underground Bazaar by Nadia Afifi
To Sail the Black by A.C. Wise
Exile's End by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Underwater cities, lost civilizations, crops, climate change, and dead zones.In this collection of ocean-themed stories, twelve of today's top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal restraints, and reflect upon our state of grace.The waves roll in, the waves roll out.

OCEANS: The Anthology features stories from bestselling authors such as winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards Ken Liu, Rysa Walker (the Chronos series), Daniel Arthur Smith (Tales from the Canyons of the Damned), R.D. Brady (the Belial series), Alex Shvartsman (the Unidentified Funny Objects series), P.K. Tyler (the UnCommon series), plus six more of today's top authors in speculative and science fiction.Daniel Arthur Smith presents OCEANS: THE ANTHOLOGY, book 2 of the 2 book Frontiers of Speculative Fiction series that began with the top-ranking CLONES: The Anthology!

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month they bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.

Our January 2014 issue contains:

• Original Fiction by Ken Liu (The Clockwork Soldier), Cheng Jingbo (Grave of the Fireflies) and Yoon Ha Lee (Wine).
• Classic stories by Aliette de Bodard (Ship's Brother) and Robert Charles Wilson (Utriusque Cosmi).
• Non-fiction by Carl Abbott (Distributed Cities), an interview with Pat Cadigan, an Another Word column by Craig DeLancey, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.