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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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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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'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

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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.

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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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As a species, we tend to live in environments where our own artifacts dominate. The way we shape our environment and are in turn shaped by it is a key theme in my fiction - indeed, it's a key part of a great deal of science fiction.

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Translation is an act of recreation.

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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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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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There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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