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The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going to save the world, so there's a different tone that comes out in the way speculative fiction is done. That's refreshing to read.
— Ken Liu
Tags: country, way, tradition, world

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The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
— Ken Liu
Tags: color, problems, face, women
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
— Ken Liu
Tags: forward, way, past, me
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
— Ken Liu
Tags: act, performance, doing, i-am
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
— Ken Liu
Tags: society, you, science, love
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
— Ken Liu
Tags: science-fiction, like, work, science
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