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  • The Subtle Art of Folding Space

    The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt th...

  • If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Formal You

  • If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You

  • Made To Order: Robots and Revolution

    100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, "robots" are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games. They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like huma...

  • The Mythic Dream

    An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.Madeleine L'Engle once said, "When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe." The Mythic Dream gathers ...

  • Beyond the El

    Connor is a food crafter just getting back into the business after his mother's death. To cope with his grief, Connor spends day after day recreating her potstickers, but they are never quite what he remembers. To move on with his life, he will have ...

  • How To Piss Off A Failed Super-Soldier

    From the Hugo Award-winning author of "The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere" comes a new short story about family, loyalty, and symbiont-enhanced super-soldiers From the moment of his birth, Aitch has been prod...

  • Hold-Time Violations

    Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this unive...

  • A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade

    Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to ...



  • The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere

    John Chu's sci-fi tale, "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). ...

Award-Winning Books by John Chu

If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Formal You
2022 Nebula Award -- Novelette
If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
2023 Locus Award -- Novelette


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Chu has published 10 books.

John Chu does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, was published in April 2026.

The first book by John Chu, The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, was published in February 2013.

No. John Chu does not write books in series.