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I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized – to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn’t so cloying and exotic and strange.

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If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

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It’s kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

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May 3, 2024

It’s kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

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May 3, 2024

If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

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