On Ken Liu's Science Fiction The Waves:The Integration of Main Themes of Science Fiction and Myth
Science fiction bridges the past and the future,the real and the virtual,and has deeper thematic echoes with mytholo-gy.The science fiction writer Ken Liu,who has a background in both Chinese and American cultures and specializes in combining Eastern stories with western reality and technology in his science fiction works.In The Waves,he interweaves the different mythologies of the world's races and fuses them with science fiction to write a new cosmic mythology.He explores the value of the meaning of human life and clesting,and the novel removes the camouflage of mythic surfaces and embraces the shifting tides of techology to explore richer possibilities for science fiction litarature.