Ken Liu

I don’t pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction—or between “genre” and “mainstream” for that matter. 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.

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

vertices in Indra’s web.

The touch is electric

worried if I would have the courage to face one

Mr. Cotton worked with Dad and was important

For those twenty-eight seconds, she wasn’t just a little girl, whose day was filled with copybooks

If she were older, she would have described that feeling as freedom

So what do you teach?”

simple, and fists could do the talking for them. The magic of words between girls was much more complicated