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Also by Ken Liu:

All That We See or Seem, October 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Speaking Bones, February 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Speaking Bones, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Veiled Throne, May 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Veiled Throne, November 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, February 2021
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, March 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Broken Stars, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, October 2016
Trade Paperback
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, March 2016
Hardcover
The Grace of Kings, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

All That We See or Seem
Ken Liu

Julia Z #1
S&S/Saga Press
October 2025
On Sale: October 14, 2025
416 pages
ISBN: 1668083175
EAN: 9781668083178
Kindle: B0DV6766HN
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Techno | Mystery | Science Fiction

Award­-winning author Ken Liu returns with his first scifi thriller in a brand-new series following former “orphan hacker” Julia Z as she is thrust into a high-stakes adventure where she must use her AI-whispering skills to unravel a virtual reality mystery, rescue a kidnapped dream artist, and confront the blurred lines between technology, selfhood, and the power of shared dreams.

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 quiet 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 oneirofex, 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 memories and providing an emotionally resonant narrative experience. While these collective dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also dreaming one-on-one with the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding the return of his dreams in exchange 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.

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