Wesley Chu Puns

DECEMBER 3 AMA PARTICIPANTS

• Brandon Sanderson

• Dana Cameron

• Megan O’Keefe

• Wesley Chu

• Peter Orullian

• Joe Ducie

DAY 1: Max Gladstone, Mark Lawrence, Sherwood Smith, Jacqueline Carey, Django Wexler, Myke Cole, Tobias Buckell, Sword & Laser with Veronica Belmont & Tom Merritt

DAY 2: Ann Leckie, Janny Wurts, T. Frohock, Michael J Sullivan, Shawn Speakman, Holly Black, Emma Newman, Brian McClellan

DAY 3: Scott Lynch, Graham Austin-King, Bradley P Beaulieu, Martha Wells, Jim C Hines, Elizabeth Bear, Robert Jackson Bennett

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/r/Fantasy reached out to the Worldbuilders team and proposed this Worldbuilders Week of AMAs - a daily group AMA from those who also support Worldbuilders.

HOW THIS WORKS

This is a group AMA where all participants will be answering questions below. It's going to be busy - feel free to ask anyone an individual question, but questions for all participants to answer are highly encouraged.

NOTE: All participants have been invited to do their own personal AMA later. Consider today's effort a bit of a warm-up.

Participants will be stopping by throughout the day and evening as they free up.

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ALL right people. It's been a fun day. Thanks for all your questions. I'm signing off. Will hang with you all on /r/fantasy in the future!

Peace, Wes

Hey folks,

I’m Wesley Chu, a 2015 John W. Campbell (NotAHugo) nominee for best new writer and best known as the author of the Tao series (Angry Robot Books). My debut, The Lives of Tao won an Alex Award and was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards for best Science Fiction. The third Tao book in the trilogy, The Rebirths of Tao, came out yesterday. Huzzah.

I also have a new book coming out July 7th titled Time Salvager (Tor Books). It's about a time traveler with addiction issues whose job is to back to dead-end timelines or events right before a disaster to salvage resources and relics. The problem with that job is that he experiences the last awful moments of all the victims and can't do anything about it.

I’m a full time writer and have been known to tuckerize people I interact with on the internet in my books. I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild, married, have an Airedale Terrier named Eva, and recently summited Kilimanjaro. I play but suck at Heroes of Newerth, and have an intense love affair with mid-century modern furniture, and noodles complete me. I also sometimes go through days without showering or taking off my bathrobe.

I’ll be checking in intermittently during the day so let’s rock this party.

ASK ME ANYTHING.

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Hello, my name is Wesley Chu and I’m the author of the Tao series (Angry Robot Books) and a new series coming out with Tor in 2015. I am also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and have done martial arts stunt work, specializing in being the token Asian guy in commercials or that anonymous guy that gets killed in the background. In the Kung Fu world, we call them “arrow fodder.”

My debut novel, The Lives of Tao, is a modern day SF about an alien who inhabits an out-of-shape loser and convinces him to fight in a civil war over humanity’s evolution. By the way, The Lives of Tao has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction. Sooo…yeah, help a brother out and vote (preferably for me but hell, just vote) if you can.

The Deaths of Tao came out two weeks ago and has just received a Booklist Starred Review. It picks up a few years after the events in Lives and well, shit’s kind of hit the fan (can I say shit here?). The stakes are higher than ever and there’s a new baddie in town named Enzo who is bigger, smarter, and better looking than you. And yeah, he’s going to make sure you know it. He’s basically the perfect dude except for this slight problem of being an egotistical maniac and a little bit of a psychopath.

On the horizon are The Rebirth of Tao (in negotiations with the robot overlords) and a novel called Time Salvager for Tor Books. The book follows a time traveler named James who scavenges for technologies and resources from a more prosperous past. Time traveling is strictly regulated. Salvagers can only scavenge from dead end timelines—events preceding an immediate disaster, explosion, or accident—where the resources salvaged will not affect the present. The problem with this job is that the salvager experiences the last tragic moments of the victims before the disaster happens. That tends to mess with a person’s head.

So there you go. Release the hounds and Ask Me Anything. I’ll be home all day so will duck in here every once in a while to answer questions, but will definitely be here with a dram of Ardbeg and stupid honesty at 7PM.

Wes

EDIT It's 6:52PM. I have a dram of corryvreckan, an empty stomach (s

I won the 2015 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The Lives of Tao won the 2014 American Library Association's Alex Award for adult novels that have special appeal to teens and was a 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Science Fiction. Time Salvager has been optioned by Paramount and the Tao series has been optioned for a television show by ABC Studios by the people who brought you Agent Carter.

I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild, a Kung-Fu Master, and a former vice president at a bank. I summited Kilimanjaro last year and now have a 3 month old baby who thinks sleep is for the weak, so I'm a little delirious from not having more than four hours of sleep at a time in over three months.

You can find me at my website, Facebook, and Twitter.

Hey folks, I'm Wesley Chu, award-winning author of the bestselling Tao series (Angry Robot). My new book, Time Salvager (Tor Books), was released two weeks ago on July 7th.

 

I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild, a Kung-Fu Master, and recently summited Kilimanjaro. Here is a picture of me getting my butt kicked by ninjas while on the climb. I also have an unhealthy obsession with dogs (in a Dean Koontz way), mid-century modern furniture, and computer keyboards.

 

I'm a two-time and current 2015 nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The Lives of Tao won the 2014 American Library Association's Alex Award for adult novels that have special appeal to teens and was a 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Science Fiction.

 

I am on tour at this moment for Time Salvager so will be doing this AMA throughout the day (I am doublebooked at 7pm CST for a Barnes & Noble Pop Cultured) and will keep going until you are all completely entertained, not entertained, or I run out of chocolate chip cookies.

 

You can find me at my website, facebook, and twitter.

All right, let's do this. I will answer all your questions with stupid honesty. Oh yeah, my dog is awesome.

I'd say it's a mix of a sci fi young adult novel with lots of action. Nothing too profound but it is well written and the main character, Roen is asian. He starts off kind of like an average dude but ends up becoming a real bad ass without spoiling too much. It was very entertaining start to finish and I recommend reading the entire series to anyone who likes an sci fi action type plot.

I'm really glad I found it at the library a few months ago after the cover and title caught my eye. The author, Wesley Chu has also written some other books, with one of them getting auctioned to Paramount for a movie.

Book: Time Salvager

Author: Wesley Chu

Genre: Science Fiction

Publication year: 2015

Sequels? One so far: Time Siege

2017 Bingo Squares: Time Travel, AMA Author, Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic / Apocalyptic / Dying Earth

Blurb:

> Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one’s hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity’s demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.

> James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.

> On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen’s highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.

My review:

7/10 stars. Well worth a read if you're looking to fill your time travel bingo square, which for me was one of the ones I had to specifically look for something to fill rather than just be filled by my usual reading. Having previously read and enjoyed Chu's The Lives of Tao, I thought I'd give Time Salvagers a try.

The book is a fast-paced read with an interesting world and premise and an interesting main character who is

I started the Tao series 3 weeks ago. It was so engrossing and enjoyable that I burnt through a book a week, and it is one of my favorite series I have read to date. Highly recommend, very well written and will not leave you unsatisfied. Think mission impossible with a scifi twist.

Hey folks,

This is a Google Hangout to celebrate Sam Sykes achieving 5,000 followers. He is legion. He is Sykes.

Sykes will be joined by authors Wesley Chu, Delilah S. Dawson, and Brian McClellan. JOIN THEM AND ASK ABSURD QUESTIONS.

The participant rules are as such.

1. They will be drinking.
2. If they swear, they must take a drink.
3. Sam Sykes is great.

Click here for video Q&A of doom.

>When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it.

>He wasn't.

>He now has a passenger in his brain - an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. Now split into two opposing factions - the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix - the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that's what it takes.

>Meanwhile, Roen is having to train to be the ultimate secret agent. Like that's going to end up well...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lives-Tao-Series-Book/dp/0857663291

Wesley Chu's best friend is Michael Jordan, assuming that best friend status is earned by a shared television commercial. If not, then his best friend is his dog Eva who he can often be seen riding like a trusty steed through the windy streets of Chicago.

Wesley Chu is a nominee for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award. Chu's debut novel, The Lives of Tao, earned him a Young Adult Library Services Association Alex Award and a Science Fiction Goodreads Choice Award Finalist slot. The sequel, The Deaths of Tao, continues the story of secret agent Roen Tan and his sarcastic telepathically bonded alien, Tao.

Chu has two books scheduled for 2015. The last book in the Tao trilogy, The Rebirths of Tao, is coming out April 7th. Time Salvager, published by Tor Books, featuring an energy stealing time traveler with addiction issues, is slated for July 7th, 2015.

Website: www.wesleychu.com Twitter: wes_chu

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Posting for Wesley Chu:

Hello, my name is Wesley Chu and I’m the author of the Tao series (Angry Robot Books) and a new series coming out with Tor in 2015. I am also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and have done martial arts stunt work, specializing in being the token Asian guy in commercials or that anonymous guy that gets killed in the background. In the Kung Fu world, we call them “arrow fodder.”

My debut novel, The Lives of Tao, is a modern day SF about an alien who inhabits an out-of-shape loser and convinces him to fight in a civil war over humanity’s evolution. It is a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction and won the Alex Award for adult SF that appeals to teens.

The sequel, The Deaths of Tao, came out last November. It picks up a few years after the events in Lives and well, shit’s kind of hit the fan (can I say shit here?). The stakes are higher than ever and there’s a new baddie in town named Enzo who is bigger, smarter, and better looking than you. And yeah, he’s going to make sure you know it. He’s basically the perfect dude except for this slight problem of being an egotistical maniac and a little bit of a psychopath.

On the horizon are The Rebirth of Tao (Dec 30, 2014) and a novel (tentatively) titled Time Salvager from Tor Books. The book follows a time traveler named James who scavenges for technologies and resources from a more prosperous past. Time traveling is strictly regulated. Salvagers can only scavenge from dead end timelines—events preceding an immediate disaster, explosion, or accident—where the resources salvaged will not affect the present. The problem with this job is that the salvager experiences the last tragic moments of the victims before the disaster happens. That tends to mess with a person’s head.

So there you go. Release the hounds and Ask Me Anything. I’ll be home all day so will duck in here every once in a while to answer questions. I have a dragonboat meeting sometime in the evening but am at your disposal the rest of the time. Let's rock this party.

Wes

USEFUL LINKS

• Twitter: @wes_chu
• Website: http://www.chuforthought.com/
• Reddit: /u/wesleychuauthor
• Facebook
• Goodreads
• Amazon author page
• [The Lives of Tao @Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A1M5EG2?ie=UTF8&a

Hey, this is Wesley Chu. I'm the author of The Lives of Tao and the upcoming The Deaths of Tao (Oct 2013), both from Angry Robot Books. I also have a Tor book called Time Salvager coming out in 2015.

I'm chilling at the Reddit table at Worldcon out in hot as hell San Antonio. Ask me anything!

I am the SFF author of The Lives of Tao and The Deaths of Tao from Angry Robot Books, and the upcoming Time Salvager from Tor Books. Ask Me Anything!

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