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John Chu
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The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @[email protected]
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I have ARCs!
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Cover of ARC of The Subtle Art of Folding Space
November 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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ICYMI: (This time with the correct release date!) Weston Wei's delightful cover for my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space, animated!
Repairing physics that has gone awry! Delicious food! Choices no one should ever have to make! Release date: 4/7/2026
September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Hey, an animated version of Weston Wei's delightful cover of my forthcoming novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space.
Off-kilter physics! A deadly family! A decision no one should have to make. Also, a lot of food.
Coming April 7, 2006. Preorder now!
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August 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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My Readercon schedule!
My reading is 7/19 (Saturday) at 10am. I'll be showing off the cover of my forthcoming novel _The Subtle Art of Folding Space_ and reading from "The Diner at the Intersection of Duty and Despair" (in this month's @uncannymagazine.bsky.social )
Friday, July 18, 2025 13:00 Why the Fantastical is Fantastic for Musicals Salon F, Duration: 60 mins 15:00 Writers Who Translate, Translators Who Write Salon I/J, Duration: 60 mins Saturday, July 19, 2025 10:00 Reading: John Chu Empower / Embrace, Duration: 30 mins 14:00 Let's Do the Time Loop Again Salon G/H, Duration: 60 mins
July 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover!
Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf
Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.
Cover of The Subtle Art of Folding Space, coming April 7, 2026 Four sets of bamboo steamers going from the top of the cover to the bottom. The top one holds steamed bao. The contents of each steamer below it get progressively more surreal. One has bao with the universe as a filling. The next steamer below it has planets. The last steamer is filled with gear works. Two hands holding red chopsticks reach for the first and third steamer. The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics. Ellie's universe, and this one, is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Taiwanese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it's supposed to. Daniel, Ellie's cousin, has found an illicit device in the skunkworks-one that keeps Ellie's comatose mother alive while also creating destabilizing bugs in the physics of this universe. It's not a good day. If she can confront her mother's legacy and overcome her family's generational trauma, she just might find a way to preserve the skunkworks and reconcile with her sister...but digging into her family's past is thornier than it seems, and the secrets she uncovers will force Ellie to choose between her family and the universe itself.
May 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I may have waited my entire adult life to see a production of this show.
The show curtain for the Encores! production of Love Life.
March 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Maybe Happy Ending has a less flashy show curtain than Smash
Show curtain for Maybe Happy Ending, which is a black background with the show title in white inside a white box.
March 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Well, this makes it pretty clear what show you're at.
the "shoe curtain" a bunch of light bulbs arranged to form the word "SMASH"
March 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Award eligibility time! I published one story in 2024, the novelette "Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere" in
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(Mentors! Multiple timelines! A tenor trying to get his high C!)
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Story tile for my novelette "Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere" with the excerpt "I'm slightly drunk, too, but not drunk enough to walk into that conference room. You don't have to be sloshed to karaoke, of course. It's just that going to the icebreaker feels like slamming the door on a part of my life that that's not actually over yet."
December 16, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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ReaderCon attendees: Saturday night, I had dinner w/a friend who then tested positive for COVID Sunday night. I just tested negative, but if you had any contact w/me, please test.
Negative COVID test taken the morning of July 16th
July 16, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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And my Ignyte Award arrived!
Ignyte Award medallion and card
December 22, 2023 at 7:37 PM
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ReaderCon is this weekend! My reading is Sun at 10am. I'll be reading something so new, it doesn't have a title yet.
Friday, July 14, 2023 2:00 PM Do Short Stories Still Matter? Salon 4, Duration: 60 mins 4:00 PM Nontoxic Masculinity in SFF Salon A, Duration: 60 mins Sunday, July 16, 2023 10:00 AM Reading: John Chu Blue Hills, Duration: 30 mins 12:00 PM Word Processors Designed for Authors Salon A, Duration: 60 mins
July 11, 2023 at 6:35 PM
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The ReaderCon program is live. I'll be at ReaderCon. Hope to see you there, too. What will I read from for my reading? I have no idea. Show up and find out!
https://schedule.readercon.org
Friday, July 14, 2023 2:00 PM Do Short Stories Still Matter? Salon 4, Duration: 60 mins 4:00 PM Nontoxic Masculinity in SFF Salon A, Duration: 60 mins Sunday, July 16, 2023 10:00 AM Reading: John Chu Blue Hills, Duration: 30 mins 12:00 PM Word Processors Designed for Authors Salon A, Duration: 60 mins
July 7, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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I'm thrilled and honored that my novelette is on the same list as such wonderful work by some truly amazing writers. Thank you so much!
✦ Best Novelette · “The Difference Between Love and Time”, by Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Solaris) · “A Dream of Electric Mothers”, by Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Tordotcom) · “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, by John Chu (Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022) · “Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, by S.L. Huang (Clarkesworld, December 2022) · “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022) · “We Built This City”, by Marie Vibbert (Clarkesworld, June 2022)
July 6, 2023 at 1:41 PM
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The Nebula comes with its own dust cloth!
My Nebula Award for the novelette "If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" and a brown dust cloth.
May 23, 2023 at 10:42 PM