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All That We See or Seem

Pages
416
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Julia Z was known as the "orphan hacker" at fourteen; now she's built a quiet, anonymous life in a Boston suburb, determined to stay invisible. That obscurity ends when a lawyer named Piers tracks her down, desperate for help finding his wife Elli, a rare dream artist who has been kidnapped.

Julia learns Elli was secretly crafting private dream experiences for an international crime lord, who is now holding her life hostage in exchange for more. To save her, Julia has to blur the line between the world she can hack and the one she can only dream, on a cross-country chase that drags her own buried past back into the light.

About the author

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Ken Liu

Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies. Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. The series is published by Simon & Schuster. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu)

Characters

Julia ZProtagonist
PiersSupporting
ElliSupporting

Piers's wife, a rare dream artist who has been kidnapped.

All characters in All That We See or Seem