#ken lui

[hikari-chan21]

"Fabricamos máquinas para que nos ayudasen a pensar, y ahora las máquinas piensan por nosotros".

Como anillo al dedo

Ken Liu

[hikari-chan21]

"—¡Tilly no te dice solo qué es lo que quieres! —gritó Jenny—. También te dice lo que tienes que pensar. ¿Estás seguro de que todavía sabes qué es lo que realmente quieres?"

Como anillo al dedo

Ken Liu

[wanderer-42]

Hear me out: a game of thrones style adaptation of Ken Lui’s dandelion series, starting with Grace of Kings. Allow the story to stretch over multiple seasons, fleshing out the characters. Imagine the friends to enemies, the epic battles, killing of characters you thought were going to be endgame. It would be great.

[hikari-chan21]

"Pero el pasado continúa vivo en forma de recuerdos, y los que están en el poder siempre van a querer borrar y silenciar el pasado, enterrar los fantasmas. Ahora que conoces ese pasado, ya no eres un espectador inocente".

El maestro de litigios y el Rey Mono

Ken Liu

[yes-lukewinter]

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. We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves—they're the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling, accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency "the narrative fallacy" doesn't mean it doesn't also touch upon some aspect of the truth. Some stories simply literalize their metaphors a bit more explicitly.

Ken Liu, Preface to 'The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories'

[bookphile]

Favorite Asian-American Writers!