![]() ![]() His work had an enormous influence on me. Usman T Malik (UTM): Or that made you want to be a writer? Pooja Pande (PP): What was the first story that you ever read, or writer you encountered, that made an impression on you? He also tells us why the dumb phone wasn’t such a bad piece of technology, after all. ![]() Papercuts presents a three-way conversation between Reportage Editor Pooja Pande, award-winning SF writer & long-time friend of DWL Usman T Malik and Ted Chiang, about all the folklore that lives within Science Fiction, the progressive storyline, and that writer’s quote that could change your life. All the SF glory possible – from the Nebulas to the Hugos – has been his, and yet he wears it all lightly. But almost each time he’s unleashed a story upon the world with his peculiar kind of storytelling, which adapts itself according to the perspective it’s favourable to and pulls you in with its narrative power of immediacy, he’s won an award. American Science Fiction writer Ted Chiang is perhaps the antithesis to the prolific writer figure – having published only 14 short stories and novellas in his career thus far. ![]()
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