William F. Wu is a Chinese-American science fiction, fantasy, and crime author.
[citation needed] 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.
[citation needed] One of his stories was adapted into a Twilight Zone episode, "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium".
The two series in Asimov's universe were written to young adult standards, though they are not labeled as such.
[citation needed] 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.