Ken Liu Quotes

United States, Writer
1976

Ken Liu (born 1976) is a Chinese-born American science-fiction and fantasy writer and translator of science fiction and literary stories from Chinese into English. His short stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

Ken Liu
- Past
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
- Literature

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.

Ken Liu
- People
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.

Ken Liu
- Real
- History
- True