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Translation is an act of recreation.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Recreation
Act
Translation
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I'm very interested in foundational narratives.
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Foundational
Narratives
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Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.
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Future
Loser
Predict
Game
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I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.
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Explicit
Messages
Necessarily
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I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.
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Mathematician
Parallel
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We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.
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The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
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Women
Color
Face
Writers
Problems
Women Writers
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There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.
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Replicate
Me Way Like
Reads
Sentence
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I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.
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Different Genres
Labels
Variety
Genres
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
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Reducing
Descriptions
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'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
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Grace
Legends
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When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
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Fellow
Translator
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We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.
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Groups
Expense
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The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
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Doe
Stories
Suffering
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The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.
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Audience
Conversation
Driven
Evolution
Artists
Between
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Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
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China
Sci Fi
Desires
Project
Terribly
Onto
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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.
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Technology
Expressive
Silk
Entirely
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The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
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Abandon
Undesirable
Past Me Way
Forward
Me Past Way
Somehow
Unrealistic
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Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
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Experimentation
Experiments
Encourages
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It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.
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Mediation
Eliminate
Observer
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Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.
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Adjustment
Almost All
Remake
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My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.
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American Culture
Eternal
Occupies
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In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.
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Aesthetic
Arthur
Brian
Creating
Vision
Influenced
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I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.
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Intense
Literature
General
Version
Speculative
View
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Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
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Added
In Fact
Translation
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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Chinese
Science Fiction
West
Anyone Else
Science I Am Science Fiction
Expert
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I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.
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Good Story
Good Look Find
Confining
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The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
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Truth
Argument
Different
Logic
Persuasive
Quite
Does
Dominate
Emotional Truth
Essay
Makes
Metaphors
Story
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It's okay if you get rejected 20, 30 or 200 times... You don't need everyone to like your story - you just need one person who really likes your story.
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Likes
Okay
Rejected
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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.
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Persuasion
Reasoning
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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.
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Colleagues
Insufferable
Neighbors
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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.
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Accidental
Parallel
Translation
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I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
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Epic
Fantasy
Grace
Meant To Be
Serious
Meant
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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.
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Perceive
Escape
Narratives
Stereotypes
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For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
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Logic
Metaphors
Narratives
Random
Senseless
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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
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Chinese
Dragons
Historical
Palaces
Reality
Colonial
Conjure
Whenever
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If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.
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Health
Mortgage
Novel
Pay
Sells
Work Great Me
Job
Work Health Great
Day Job
Having
Health Insurance
Insurance
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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.
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Chinese
Particular
Sci Fi
Unique
Writers
View
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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.
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Chinese
Diverse
Driven
Fiction
Individual
Labels
Science Fiction
Western
Authors
Work Science Science Fiction
Concerns
Vast
Summarize
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'The Grace of Kings' draws on Western traditions as much as it does on Chinese traditions, though the bones of the story are drawn from the Chu-Han Contention period before the Han Dynasty.
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Bones
Contention
Draws
Dynasty
Grace
Drawn
Traditions
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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.
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Individual
Trapped
Unique
Void
Across
Touch
Bodies
Experiences
Histories
Minds
Reach
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I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.
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Caught
Immigrants
Narrative
People More Real
Argue
People Real More
Cultures
Essentially
Harmful
Tries
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Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form.
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Labor
Physicality
Substance
Tangible
Naturally
Possibilities
Presented
Text
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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.
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Book
Letters
Rejection
Short Story
Sun
Writer
Collected
Short
Hoped
Market
Submitted
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I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
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Asian
Exotic
Fantasy
Inspired
New Life
Strange
Fresh
New Kind
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In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?
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Benefits
Class
Depends
Dystopia
Revolution
Utopia
Just
Somebody
Every
Else
Losers
Where
Winners
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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.
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Epic
Fantasy
Grace
Sequels
Assumptions
Challenge
Material
Source Material
Specific
Wanting
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It's true that misunderstanding and lack of understanding are often themes in my fiction, but I am grateful for the moments when true understanding is achieved, especially between writer and reader. It's miraculous.
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Grateful
Miraculous
Misunderstanding
Moments
Reader
Understanding
Writer
Achieved
Themes
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The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.
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Messages
Author
Functions
Reads
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The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.
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Acceptance
Acknowledge
Adoption
Spread
Important Role
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