Science fiction gave us Frankenstein. 1984. Cyberpunk. Ken Liu – speculative fiction powerhouse, winner of Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards –shares why stories are humankind’s oldest technology. Why it matters what languages they’re told in, what cultures they belong to. His invention of “silkpunk”. Why science fiction isn’t about predicting the future, but making it. How he pivots his plots around technology to tell human stories. And why he’s excited about about AI. Watch this riveting conversation between the author of the much-loved The Paper Menagerie and translator of Cixin Liu’s hit Three-Body Problem and Ritika Passi, Executive Editor, Lucid Lines.