At Worldcon I introduced myself to everybody. It never occurred to me to look online, and there are communities online. It was a pretty lonely existence until Worldcon happened. Writing groups never worked for me, partly because it’s hard to workshop a novel.

I’d order a bottomless cup of coffee and abuse the shit out of that policy. All the waitresses would think I was weird. I’d pick a new café to write in every month, so for one month I’d sit in that café. I was that guy in a cabin in the woods for a long time – I was this ghost hovering around cafés in Chicago. This whole thing was new to me until Chicon in 2012.

I knew what a Hugo Award was, but I didn’t know how you won one. “I didn’t know much about the industry until I got published – I didn’t know there were conventions, and I didn’t know what Worldcon was. Other stuff being just about everything else. It was all about being a good student and not getting distracted by the ‘other’ stuff. My parents have been trying to convince me to not do anything artistic or athletic for the past 30 years. Not in terms of behavior, but I’ll do things they don’t want me to do. “I’m the most independent of my siblings, and I’m also the black sheep. He lives in Chicago with his wife, attorney Paula Kim. Time Salvager was optioned for film before it was even published, with director Michael Bay attached.Ĭhu was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2014, and just won the award this year. His latest novel is Time Salvager (2015), first in a planned time-travel trilogy. The Io spin-off series is forthcoming, with The Rise of Io scheduled for 2016. He became a full-time writer in 2014.ĭebut novel The Lives of Tao appeared in 2013, launching the Tao series of humorous SF novels, which includes The Deaths of Tao (2013) and The Rebirths of Tao (2015). An accomplished gymnast and martial artist, Chu has also worked as a stuntman and actor, appearing in films and on television. He studied computer science at the University of Illinois, graduating with a management information systems degree and working for a consulting company and dotcoms before spending ten years working on banking systems.

His family relocated to Nebraska in 1982, and soon moved to Chicago IL. Wesley Chu was born Septemas 朱恆昱 in Taipei on the island of Taiwan.

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