#amWriting: "We Use Narrative As a Way to Make Sense of the World"

[Letizia]

The Author

Ken’s fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places. His work has been twice nominated for the Nebula (The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary and The Paper Menagerie) and several of his stories have been selected for inclusion in various Year’s Best anthologies. He lives near Boston with his wife and daughter.

The Interview

What do you think about the current science fiction stories? Which are the main quality you can see in them, today?

I think I see a lot more diversity in contemporary science fiction compared to the past -- I mean in every way -- topics, ideas, attitudes, approaches, demographics. At the same time, many contemporary writers have maintained the willingness to question our society's deeply held assumptions about how things ought to be -- one of the most subversive qualifies of science fiction.

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