John Chu
Chu, John | |
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| Occupation | Author, Engineer |
| Notable works | The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere (2013) |
| Notable awards | Hugo |
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John Chu (Chinese: 朱中宜) is an American microprocessor architect, science fiction writer and literary translator.
Life and career
Chu was born in Taiwan, moved to the US and began learning English at age six. He read voraciously as a child and was inspired to write science fiction by the works of Ted Chiang. He has attended the Viable Paradise and Clarion science fiction & fantasy writing workshops.[1]
In 2014 Chu won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story with the story The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere.[2] Chu also reads for podcasts and translates novels and stories from Chinese into English.
Bibliography
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Short fiction
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Best of all possible worlds | 2013 | Chu, John (February 2013). "Best of all possible worlds". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (2): 70–74. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
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| The water that falls on you from nowhere | 2013 | Chu, John (February 20, 2013). "The water that falls on you from nowhere". Tor.com. Retrieved 2016-01-23. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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Berman, Steve, ed. (2014). Wilde stories 2014 : the year's best gay speculative fiction. Lethe Press. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |editormask= (help)
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Winner 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story[2] |
References
- ^ Stanish, Deborah, Interview: John Chu, retrieved 16 October 2015
- ^ a b "2014 Hugo Awards". Retrieved 8 September 2014.
External links
- John Chu's bibliography. Many of his stories are available free online.
- Author profile, Tor.com, September 2014
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