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Ken Liu
American
Writer
Born:
1976
Chinese
Me
Science
Think
Writing
You
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I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some of the source material I was working from as well as some of the assumptions of epic fantasy.
Ken Liu
Grace
Challenge
Mind
Other
Assumptions
Some
Kings
Message
Well
Material
Source
Source Material
Than
Wanting
Epic
Fantasy
Working
Sequels
Specific
I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.
Ken Liu
Nature
Women
Better
Try
Job
Think
Ways
Tackle
Better Job
Generally
Masculinity
Toxic
Sort
Issues
Traditional
Male
Question
Authors
Representation
Want
Notions
Who
Presenting
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.
Ken Liu
Work
General
Write
Version
Very
Intense
Just
Fiction
Literature
Really
View
Speculative
In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.
Ken Liu
Technology
Vision
Language
Ideas
Aesthetic
Arthur
Influenced
Creating
Brian
Who
It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.
Ken Liu
Me
Trapped
Incredible
Minds
Able
Touch
Void
Individual
Between
Reach
Histories
Any
Experiences
Them
Bodies
Across
Unique
Two
Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
Ken Liu
Best
Book
Own
Every
Rejection
Market
Sun
Collected
Hoped
Pretty
Writer
Over
Like
Make
Years
Submitted
Short
Short Story
Story
Much
Letters
'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
Ken Liu
Life
Grace
Characters
Kings
About
Like
Read
Were
Than
Legends
Bigger
Meant
Who
Set
My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.
Ken Liu
Work
Translation
Side
Project
Has-Been
Parallel
Pretty
Accidental
Been
Fiction
Turned
Separate
Basically
Career
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