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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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I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

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I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s and '50s. I've also written stories that are very high fantasy that are the direct opposite of that style.

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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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The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

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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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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

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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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The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

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As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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