Bibliography of author Ken Liu .
| Year | Title | First published | Collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Carthaginian Rose | Empire of Dreams and Miracles: The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1 , edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa, 2002. | ||
| 2003 | Gossamer | Writers of the Future, Vol. 19, 2003; reprinted in Semaphore Magazine, March 1, 2011. | ||
| 2004 | The Algorithms for Love | (online) Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine , Strange Horizons , July 2004; reprinted in Issue #4 of International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, July 2012. | ||
| 2004 | State Change | Polyphony 4, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake, September 2004; reprinted by Lightspeed, August 2014. | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2007 | Beneath the Language | (online), On the Premises, July 2007 (Issue 2) | ||
| 2009 | Single-Bit Error | Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, 2009; International Speculative Fiction, edited by Roberto Mendes, December 2013; | ||
| 2010 | Beidou | The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, May 2010. | ||
| 2010 | The Phoenix | (online), On the Premises, July 2010 (Issue 11) | ||
| 2010 | The Literomancer | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , September/October 2010 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2010 | The Letter | (online), Every Day Fiction , December 5, 2010 | ||
| 2011 | Saving Face | (online) Archived 2012-04-10 at the Wayback Machine , Crossed Genres, January 1, 2011 | co-written with Shelly Li | |
| 2011 | Tying Knots | (online), Clarkesworld Magazine , January 2011 | ||
| 2011 | The Chase | Every Day Fiction , January 28, 2011 | ||
| 2011 | To the Stars | (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, February 3, 2011 | co-written with Shelly Li | |
| 2011 | Simulacrum | (online), Lightspeed Magazine , February 15, 2011 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2011 | The Paper Menagerie | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , March/April 2011. | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2011 | The Visit | (online), On the Premises, March 2011 (Issue 13) | ||
| 2011 | Ad Block | (online) Archived 2020-04-20 at the Wayback Machine , Kasma SF, March 19, 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , May/June 2011. | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2011 | The Caretaker | Digital Science Fiction, June 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Hark! Listen to the Animals | The ePocalypse: e-mails at the end, August 2011; revised Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9, July 2014 | co-written with Lisa Tang Liu | |
| 2011 | The Box That Eats Memories | (online) Archived 2013-01-21 at archive.today , Daily Science Fiction , August 10, 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Music of the Spheres | Mirror Shards: Exploring the Edges of Augmented Reality (Volume One), 2011 | ||
| 2011 | The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary | Panverse Three, edited by Dario Ciriello, September 2011 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novella |
| 2011 | The Last Seed | (online) Archived 2013-01-21 at archive.today , Daily Science Fiction , September 26, 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Real Artists | TRSF (September 2011), a special publication of MIT's Technology Review | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2011 | Golden Years in the Paleozoic | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , Issue #52, September 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Staying Behind | (online), Clarkesworld Magazine , October 1, 2011 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2011 | The Countable | Asimov's , December 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Safe Empathy | Daily Science Fiction , November 21, 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Life Plus Seventy | (online) Archived 2019-06-13 at the Wayback Machine , Kasma SF, November 23, 2011 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2011 | Justice Fairbot | 140 And Counting, edited by Joanne Merriam, December 11, 2011 | ||
| 2011 | The Necrocracy | Penumbra, December 2011 | ||
| 2012 | The Last Summer | 10 Flash, January 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The People of Pele | Asimov's , February 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Maxwell's Demon | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , January/February 2012 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | The Five Elements of the Heart Mind | (online), Lightspeed Magazine , January 24, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | All the Flavors | (online), GigaNotoSaurus, February 2012 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novella |
| 2012 | Memories of My Mother | (online) Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine , Daily Science Fiction , March 19, 2012 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | Exotic Pets | Buzzy Mag, March 25, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | To the Moon | Fireside, April 17, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Monkeys | (online), Nature's * "Futures" feature, April 19, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Intelligent Design | (online) Archived 2018-07-17 at the Wayback Machine , Schrodinger's Mouse, April 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Shadowcrafter | Nine, Issue 1, April 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Tome of Tourmaline | (online) Archived 2012-05-23 at the Wayback Machine , Daily Science Fiction , May 9, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Mono no aware | The Future is Japanese, May 15, 2012; republished (online), Lightspeed Magazine , June 2013 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | The Illusionist | (online), Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi, Issue 4, June 2, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Real Faces | F&SF , July/August issue, June 22, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Celestial Bodies | Nature , June 28, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Silk Merchant | Apex , Issue 38, July 3, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Ask Emily | The Memory Eater Anthology, July 5, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | You'll Always Have the Burden With You | In Situ, Dagan Books, July 10, 2012; republished, Perihelion Science Fiction, December 2013 | ||
| 2012 | Cutting | Electric Velocipede , Issue 24, July 30, 2012 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species | Lightspeed, Issue 27, August 7, 2012 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | Arc | F&SF , September/October issue, September 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Summer Reading | Daily Science Fiction , September 4, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Waves | Liu, Ken (December 2012). "The Waves". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (12): 38–51. | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2012 | The Perfect Book | Analog , December 2012 issue, September 22, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Drilling | Kasma SF, October 2012 | ||
| 2012 | Pattern Recognition | Diverse Energies, edited by Tobias Buckell and Joe Monti, October 2012. | ||
| 2012 | The Message | Interzone Issue 242, September 2012. | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | Good Hunting | (online), Strange Horizons , October 9, 2012 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2012 | The Tides | Daily Science Fiction, November 1, 2012. | ||
| 2012 | Always Here | Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 31, November 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Postman | Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 31, November 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Perfect Match | (online), Lightspeed Magazine , December 2012 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2012 | Love Thy Neighbors | Unidentified Funny Objects, December 16, 2012 | ||
| 2012 | The Messenger's Tale | Aoife's Kiss, Issue 43, Winter 2012/2013 issue, December 2012 | ||
| 2013 | A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2013 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2013 | The mMod | Daily Science Fiction, January 18, 2013. | ||
| 2013 | The Veiled Shanghai | Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen, February 26, 2013. | ||
| 2013 | The Oracle | Liu, Ken (Apr–May 2013). "The Oracle". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (4&5): 144–152. | ||
| 2013 | Linger | Daily Science Fiction, March 12, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | The Clean War | Buzzy Mag, March 15, 2013 | co-written with Shelly Li | |
| 2013 | How Do You Know If a Fish Is Happy? | Fish, March 2013 from Dagan Books | ||
| 2013 | Build-A-Dolly | Apex, April 2, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | The Shape of Thought | The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt, April 2013. | ||
| 2013 | Sungrazers | Kasma SF, May 2013 | ||
| 2013 | Effect and Cause | Galaxy’s Edge, Issue 2, May 2013. | ||
| 2013 | The Plague | Nature , May 16, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | The City of Chrysanthemum | Daily Science Fiction, June 12, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | Prosopagnosia | Drabblecast, June 30, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | Echoes in the Dark | Mythic Delirium, Issue 0.1, July–September 2013 | ||
| 2013 | The Litigatrix | GigaNotoSaurus, August 2013 | ||
| 2013 | Nova Verba, Mundus Novus | Daily Science Fiction, August 13, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | The Litigation Master and the Monkey King | (online), Lightspeed Magazine , August 2013 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2013 | The Call of the Pancake Factory | Drabblecast, August 23, 2013; reprinted in The Cackle of Cthulhu, edited by Alex Shvartsman. | ||
| 2013 | The Journal | Fireside, Issue 5, September 12, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | The MSG Golem | Unidentified Funny Objects 2, edited by Alex Shvartsman, October 2013 | ||
| 2013 | Ghost Days | Lightspeed, October 22, 2013 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2013 | Here-and-Now | Kasma SF, November 1, 2013 | ||
| 2013 | Before and After | Apex, December 2013 | ||
| 2014 | The Clockwork Soldier | (online), Clarkesworld Magazine , January 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Second Chance | (online), Nature , January 2014 | ||
| 2014 | The Plantimal | Resnick, Mike & Ken Liu (March 2014). "The Plantimal". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (3): 13–24. | co-written with Mike Resnick | |
| 2014 | The Reborn | (online), Tor.com, January 2014 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2014 | What Is Expected of a Wedding Host | (online) Archived 2015-01-11 at the Wayback Machine , Daily Science Fiction, February 2014 | ||
| 2014 | None Owns the Air | Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014 | ||
| 2014 | The Gods Will Not Be Chained | The End is Nigh (Book I of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, March 2014 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2014 | The Ten Suns | Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse, March 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Lecture 14: Concerning the Event Cloaking Device and Practical Applications Thereof | (online), Cosmos, April 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Knotting Grass, Holding Ring | Long Hidden, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, May 2014 | ||
| 2014 | What I Assume You Shall Assume | Dead Man's Hand, edited by John Joseph Adams, May 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon | (online), Kaleidoscope, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, August 2014 | ||
| 2014 | In the Loop | War Stories, edited by Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates, August 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Homo Florensis | Solaris Rising 3, August 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Running Shoes | (online), SQ Mag, Issue 16, September 2014 | ||
| 2014 | The Gods Will Not Be Slain | The End is Now (Book II of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, September 2014 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2014 | The Regular | Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke, September 2014 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Novella |
| 2014 | The Ussuri Bear | (online), Beast Within 4: Gears and Growls, edited by Jennifer Brozek, October 2014 | ||
| 2014 | Saboteur | Liu, Ken (December 2014). "Saboteur". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (12): 68–70. | ||
| 2014 | Presence | (online), Uncanny, November/December 2014 | ||
| 2014 | The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 | (online), Clarkesworld Magazine , November 2014 | ||
| 2014 | The Dust Garden | SFComet, December 2014 | ||
| 2015 | Cassandra | Clarkesworld, March 1, 2015. | ||
| 2015 | The Gods Have Not Died in Vain | The End Has Come (Book III of the Apocalypse Triptych), edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey, May 1, 2015 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2015 | Crystal | Daily Science Fiction, October 15, 2015 | ||
| 2015 | Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 | War Stories From the Future, edited by August Cole, November 2015. | ||
| 2015 | Compatibility | Ecotones, December 2015. | ||
| 2016 | White Hempen Sleeves | After the Fall, edited by Jaym Gates, 2016 | ||
| 2016 | Of Trees | Part of Herman Chong's exhibit "Ifs, Ands, or Buts" (January 23 to May 3, 2016, at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai) | ||
| 2016 | An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, March 8, 2016 | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | |
| 2016 | The Snow Train | Genius Loci: the Spirit of Place, edited by Jaym Gates, June 2016 | ||
| 2016 | Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit — Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts | Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, edited by Jonathan Strahan, 2016. | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2016 | A Brief And Inaccurate But True Account of the Origin of Living Books | Tales of Our Time, November 4, 2016. | ||
| 2016 | Seven Birthdays | Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan, November 8, 2016 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2017 | Shanghai in 48 Hours, a Weekend Itinerary for International Visitors by Roaming Planets Guides, 2116 | Part of the Shanghai Project, an exhibit by the Shanghai Zendai Himalayas Museum, April 22, 2017; reprinted in Deep Signal, June 2019. | ||
| 2017 | Ticket | Stanford Anthology for Youth, June 2017. | ||
| 2017 | An Open Letter to the Sentient AI Who Has Announced Its Intention to Take Over the Earth | Unidentified Funny Objects 6, edited by Alex Shvartsman, October 2017 | ||
| 2017 | The Sith of Datawork | From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars), October 3, 2017 | ||
| 2017 | The Hidden Girl | The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois, October 2017 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2017 | Alter | The Eugene Studio, Japan, published on November 20, 2017; reprinted in subTerrain, 2020. | ||
| 2017 | The Explainer | CBN Weekly, published on December 21, 2017; English version published in Lightspeed's special 100th issue, September 2018. | ||
| 2018 | Quality Time | Robots vs. Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien, January 2018 | Novelette | |
| 2018 | Cosmic Spring | Lightspeed, March 15, 2018 | ||
| 2018 | The Magic Paintbrush | Jali, edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey for Audible, April 2018 | ||
| 2018 | Byzantine Empathy | MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush, May 2018 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2018 | The Trustless | Wired, December 17, 2018 | ||
| 2019 | Thoughts and Prayers | Slate, January 26, 2019 | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | |
| 2019 | Love's Mirror | Deep Signal, June 2019 | ||
| 2019 | BookSavr | F&SF, September/October 2019. | ||
| 2019 | The Moon Carver | The Other Animals, Audible Original edited by Rachel Hamburg, November 14, 2019. | ||
| 2020 | How to Survive the Next Science Fictional Disaster, A Guide for the Wise | L'Uomo, February 2020. | ||
| 2020 | How to Build a Dragon at the End of Time | Sub-Q, February 2020 | Interactive fiction | |
| 2020 | Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, February 25, 2020. | The Hidden Girl and Other Stories | Novelette |
| 2020 | Uma | Avatars, Inc, from XPrize, edited by Ann VanderMeer, March 13, 2020. | ||
| 2020 | Idols | Made to Order: Robots and Revolution, edited by Jonathan Strahan, March 17, 2020. | ||
| 2020 | A Whisper of Blue | The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan, July 7, 2020 | Novelette | |
| 2020 | 50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know | Uncanny, November 3, 2020 | ||
| 2020 | The Cleaners | Liu, Ken (2 December 2020). "A Time to Reflect". kenliu.substack.com. Retrieved 2020-12-07. | ||
| 2021 | Excerpt from Theuth, an Oral History of Work in the Age of Machine-Assisted Cognition | Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories, Bloomsbury Press, edited by Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel, January 2021. | ||
| 2021 | The Armies of Those I Love | Audible Original (February 25, 2021) | Novella | |
| 2021 | Jaunt | Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, edited by Gideon Lichfield, published by MIT Press (part of the Twelve Tomorrows series), March 2021. | ||
| 2022 | Evaluative Soliloquies | Part of Google's experimental AI Wordcraft Writers Workshop, November 2, 2022. | ||
| 2022 | Timekeeper's Symphony | Clarkesworld, September 2022 | ||
| 2023 | Invasive Species | Newsweek Japan (Japanese translation), February 7, 2023. | ||
| 2023 | Collaboration? | Uncanny, January 3, 2023 | co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim | |
| 2023 | The Emperor's New Servers | The Oracle, Story Summit 2022, hosted by Alexandria Labs, March 27, 2023. | ||
| 2023 | The Edges of Wilderness | The Continental Literary Magazine, April 18, 2023. | ||
| 2023 | Good Spells | Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan, August 1, 2023. | ||
| 2023 | The Passing of the Dragon | Tor.com, September 13, 2023 | ||
| 2023 | Good Stories | The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI, edited by Alex Shvartsman, November 2023. | ||
| 2023 | The Ice Wraith | Mythopoesis for Techno-Living Systems, edited by Ursula Mayer and Rachel Hill, December 2023. | ||
| 2024 | Grief Is a Green Leaf | Games to Bind Us, edited by Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalioglu, July 2024. | ||
| 2024 | Three Views of a Parking Lot | The Sunday Morning Transport, October 6, 2024. | ||
| 2025 | If a Digitized Tree Falls | Reactor, September 10, 2025 | co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim |
Classics
Full Length Novels
Short works
Many of Liu's short stories have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, and multiple other languages and published in short story collections: