Ken Liu's short stories have won Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. He is the author of The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (The Grace of Kings(2015), The Wall of Storms (2016), and a forthcoming third volume) and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016), a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017). Ken and Jayme discuss his inventions for the Dandelion Dynasty and how he decided which ones would work for his books. Ken talks about how virtual reality is a great new tool for writers and how he came to writing short stories and how each one is different.