Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation

by Ken Liu

My darling, starting with the Odyssey, every knight errant has told romances of faraway places to court the ladies they love. Can you tell which stories are real and which are not? I travel through these planets like Marco Polo wandering through the cities of the Orient, like Kubla Khan riding through his endless realm: everything happens in the blink of an eye.

We have been sitting here for an afternoon telling stories, and together, we possess a universe.

You know they are singing in the wind, singing in the wind of a distant homeland.