Could you talk about some of your influences in both? In this interview, we discuss the influence of Chinese history on his writing the links between the languages of law, computer programming, and fiction and how the aesthetics and vocabularies of art, war, music, and technology parallel each other in his latest work.Īmy Brady: The Dandelion Dynasty series pulls simultaneously from Chinese and Western literary traditions. In all of his work, Liu draws from Chinese and Western traditions to create worlds unlike any other. Liu is both a lawyer and a programmer, and the author of The Grace of Kings (the first book of his series) as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, a deeply moving collection of speculative short fiction. Today marks the release of The Wall of Storms, the second book in Ken Liu’s “silkpunk” Dandelion Dynasty fantasy series.
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