“I thought my duty was to restore Haan, but Haan is not King Cosugi or the burned-down palace or the ruins of the great estates or the dead nobles and their descendants pining for glory-these are but parts of an experiment at a way of life for the people of Haan, her true essence. When the experiment has proven to be a failure, one must be willing to try new paths, new ways of doing things.”

American science fiction and fantasy author

Kenneth Yukun Liu is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his fiction, and 104 quotes are on the site under his name. His short fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, including F&SF, Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Reactor, Uncanny Magazine, and several Year's Best collections. His work is closely associated with speculative fiction in magazine and anthology form.