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Maggie Shen King

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Taipei, Taiwan

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Maggie Shen King is the author of An Excess Male (Harper Voyager), a Washington Post Top 5 Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2017, a James Tiptree, Jr., and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. She is Goodreads September 2017 Debut Author the Month.

Her short stories have appeared in Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Fourteen Hills. Her manuscript Fortune's Fools, won Second Prize in Amazon's 2012 Breakthrough Novel Award. ...more

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Maggie Shen King I moved to the U.S. from Taiwan when I was in high school, and unusual news stories from that side of the world always grab my attention. About six ye…moreI moved to the U.S. from Taiwan when I was in high school, and unusual news stories from that side of the world always grab my attention. About six years ago, I read a NY Times article about gender imbalance in China. At the time, I was ready to write a second novel and played with the idea in a short story. I went on next to explore the viewpoints of the other three main characters and found that I liked telling the story from this symphony of voices. I kept alternating point of view characters, and after a year and a half of consistent work, I finished the first rough draft of An Excess Male.(less)

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Maggie Shen King For me, writing is more a question of my willingness to engage with the blank page and not be distracted by life, email, social media, and news storie…moreFor me, writing is more a question of my willingness to engage with the blank page and not be distracted by life, email, social media, and news stories. So far, I've found that if I can get my "bottom in the chair"—I work at a standing desk in my kitchen—ideas will usually come. The trick for me is to show up consistently and stay on that blank page.(less)

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Average rating: 3.67 · 2,852 ratings · 527 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Excess Male 3.67 avg rating — 2,834 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2014 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Derek Künsken (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jason K. Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“How many wives out there have it much, much worse?” “Why should other women’s unhappiness justify mine?”
― Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male

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“The merengue was invented out of necessity,” I tell everyone. “It was the only dance possible for ankle-chained slaves in the cane fields of the Caribbean.”
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“Sometimes.” “How much?”
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February Science Fiction -- The following poll decides which two books will go to the second round of polls for the Science Fiction BOTM, February 2018.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

18 votes, 27.3%

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

16 votes, 24.2%

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Nicole Galland and Neal Stephenson

15 votes, 22.7%

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

7 votes, 10.6%

These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner

4 votes, 6.1%

The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells

3 votes, 4.5%

Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke

3 votes, 4.5%

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