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John Chu


USA flag (b.1979)

John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night. His fiction has appeared in Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com among other venues. His translations have been published in Clarkesworld, The Big Book of SF and other venues. 
He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte Awards, won the Best Short Story Hugo for "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere." and won the Best Novelette Nebula for "If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You." The Subtle Art of Folding Space is his first novel.

 

Awards: Nebula (2022), Hugo (2014)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by John Chu
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Nebula Awards Showcase 58 (2025)
(Nebula Award Stories, book 58)
edited by
Stephen Kotowych
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 59 (2024)
July/august 2024
(Uncanny Magazine, book 59)
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New Suns 2 (2023)
Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
(New Suns, book 2)
edited by
Nisi Shawl

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Awards
2023 Locus Award for Best Novelette : If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
2022 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Water That Falls On You from Nowhere

Award nominations
2023 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You


John Chu recommends
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Liberty's Daughter (2023)
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"I have been waiting most of a literal decade for this."
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The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (2020)
The Tyrant

(Masquerade , book 3)
Seth Dickinson
"A beautiful, perfectly formed crystal of a novel."
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Empress of Forever (2019)
Max Gladstone
"A breakneck epic that explores a wildly, boldly imagined universe, filled with awe and wonder."

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