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Ken Liu: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Writing a Novel Um Sure Fiction for Me Is Um Sure

Short fiction for me is a way to explore ideas and to just work out the implications of a very clear central core idea some aspect of reality that i can capture using just one sketch of the world. For me short fiction is about negative space it's about leaving things out and then having the reader fill all those points  and oftentimes when i'm done with a short story i don't have any more stories to tell in that world, he says.

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