Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
As a species, we tend to live in environments where our own artifacts dominate. The way we shape our environment and are… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Like steampunk, silkpunk is a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But while steampunk takes its inspiration from the chrome-brass-glass technology aesthetic… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that. — Ken Liu Copy Share
People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share
“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result. — Ken Liu Copy Share
“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they… — Ken Liu Copy Share
“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.” — Ken Liu Copy Share
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical… — Ken Liu Copy Share
We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others. — Ken Liu Copy Share
“By custom, we wield the sword and wear the armor, but who among you does not know a mother, sister, daughter, friend, who exceeds… — Ken Liu Copy Share
My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on… — Ken Liu Copy Share
