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Ken Liu: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Art of Story Writing

I think that kind of multivalence, that kind of being a man about to multiple interpretations is very critical. But in that sense it's all works of art, especially if they're great works of art fail as acts of communication because they don't necessarily communicate with the writer intended to the reader. I ended up suddenly my idea of tangible metaphors so it's it's the idea that you know all literature is based on the logic of metaphors but some literature is much more explicit about the metaphors that they're using. It's about taking a metaphor and making it literally true in the word in the fictional world. We may metaphorically speak about alienation of modernity the sense that in the modern

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