Books Quote by Ken Liu

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is…

— Ken Liu

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed…

— Liu Cixin

Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals.

— Liu Cixin

I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history…

— Colette Freedman

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers…

— Nalo Hopkinson

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory,…

— Harlan Ellison

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

— Ken Liu

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements…

— Kristin Hannah

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really…

— Ken Liu

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art…

— Charles Stross

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

— Anna Torv

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public…

— Jean M. Auel