William F. Wu

William F. Wu is a Chinese-American science fiction, fantasy, and crime author.

Literary career He published more than seventy published works of short fiction. Some of them have been nominated for the Hugo Award. His work has been nominated for the Nebula Award twice and once for the World Fantasy Award. His short story "Goin' Down to Anglotown" was in the anthology The Dragon and the Stars, which won Canada's Aurora Award in the category of Best Related Work in English. "Goin' Down to Anglotown" was also a finalist for the Sidewise Award.

One of his stories was adapted into a Twilight Zone episode, "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium". Though Wu did not write the teleplay for the episode, he was present for its filming.

Wu has written eight novels using the Three Laws of Robotics invented by Isaac Asimov, including two entries in the Isaac Asimov's Robot City series, volumes 3 (Cyborg) and 6 (Perihelion). He also wrote six novels in Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time series. The two series in Asimov's universe were written to young adult standards, though they are not labeled as such. The latter was the first series licensed from Asimov's estate after his death.

Wu is also the author of The Yellow Peril (1982), a revised version of his doctoral dissertation in American Culture from the University of Michigan on American fiction's evolving depiction of Chinese and Chinese-Americans. His collection of comic books, documenting changing depictions of Asians and Asian-Americans in American comics from 1920–2001, is held at New York University's Fales Library.