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 least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from. Ken Liu More Quotes by Ken Liu More Quotes From Ken Liu There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader. Ken Liu likemeyouway I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician. Ken Liu parallelstillthinkuniverse I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules. Ken Liu ruleslawtryingfall 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 well-known in the West. Ken Liu greatcoolknowscience In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy. Ken Liu trymecolleagueswriting I'm very interested in foundational narratives. Ken Liu narrativesinterestedvery There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China. Ken Liu fightyouimaginationhistory
