Interpreting the Future: Ken Liu on Silkpunk and Sci-Fi
Touted by Newsweek as “the man bringing Chinese science fiction to the West,” Ken Liu is one of the most original sci-fi/fantasy writers of his generation. His short stories have won a Nebula, two Hugos and a World Fantasy Award, and his Hugo Award-winning translation of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem counts Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg among its many fans. In this talk, Liu will discuss with moderator Genevieve Hilton his body of work, his “silkpunk” fantasy aesthetic (which envisions alternate technologies inspired by East Asian antiquity) and his translation of Chinese science fiction.
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Jason Li is a Hong Kong-based cartoonist and designer. He is the author of The House on Horse Mountain, an upcoming graphic novel about a young girl growing up in a bygone Hong Kong of the 1960s, and creator of Add Oil Comics, a social advocacy webcomic. Integrating elements of social science, illustration and social media, his works have been appeared at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Asian Art Museum, on the BBC, and on the radio in Spain.
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