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Ken Liu

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Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author of speculative fiction, as
well as a translator, lawyer, and programmer. A winner of the Nebula,

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#2019 #aesthetics #bitcoin #blockchain #capital #civilization #code refactoring #coindesk #consensus #consensus 2019

Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a translator, lawyer, and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he is the author of The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series The Grace of Kings (2015), The Wall of Storms (2016), and a forthcoming third volume and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016), a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017).

In 2018, Ken wrote “Byzantine Empathy” for MIT Technology Review’s hard SF anthology, Twelve Tomorrows. The Los Angeles Review of Books highlighted it as a “stand out for combining the most in-depth technical grasp of the blockchain with captivating characters and plots.” He also wrote the introduction to Jimmy Song’s Programming Bitcoin (2019).

In addition to his original fiction, Ken also translated numerous works from Chinese to English, including The Three-Body Problem (2014), by Liu Cixin, and “Folding Beijing,” by Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners.

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