Interview with Ken Liu - author of the Paper Menagerie!

Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie, The Hidden Girl, and The Dandelion Dynasty. He's also the translator of the Three Body Problem! All of Ken's writing and translation work is excellent, but if you haven't read his short story collection The Paper Menagerie we recommend you start there, it's truly incredible. You can also find this episode on your podcast app of choice To talk about Ken's books (and so many more), come join the Hugonauts book club on discord:   / discord   We talked with Ken about: Timestamps 00:00 Intro 2:43 Robo-Ken - the neural network he built to help write a story 8:30 Growing up in both China and America 16:04 His background as a programmer and lawyer 22:49 The singularity and uploading your consciousness 26:32 The importance of family in his stories 34:05 Short stories vs novels 41:02 The meaning of silkpunk and his series The Dandelion Dynasty 50:35 Pantheon - The TV show based on his writing 54:28 The stories he's writing now If you don't already subscribe to the channel, please do, it helps small creators like us so much to get to 1,000 subs! Next episode we'll be discussing Peter Watt's Blindsight - look forward to talking with y'all then. Happy reading everybody! #hugonauts #scifi #kenliu #papermenagerie #booktube #bookrecommendations