Featured Interview With Yicheng Liu
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Yicheng Liu. I am a guy who enjoys writing, I had always thought as a kid that at some point in time, I would have written a book. So yeah, as a kid I moved to Australia and learned english and ended up becoming very good at writing stories and essays. I still live in Australia, but I do occasionally go back to china to visit relatives and family. I like to believe I had a normal childhood, but when it comes to pets…well, let’s just say kids are really sadistic and I managed kill a lot of goldfishes back when I was a kid.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I had a fascination with books for almost as long as I can remember. The fantasy book series I embarked on was Harry Potter, when I was eight. I used to fall asleep listening to bedtime stories. But I had started writing ever since I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to keep a journal and recount the events of my daily life. So I would say I had a fascination with fiction and stories since a young age. Regardless of which language it is written in.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it. If I am in a sci-fi mood, then I would read a book by Terry Pratchett, Issac Asimov, H.G wells, etc. If I wanted to read mystery, then it’s Sir Author Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. So I don’t really have a favourite author or genre. If it’s good, then I’ll read it. But it’s a die rent story if it’s about writers I dislike. A lot of writers inspires me when I am writing. Mostly, it would be science fiction authors that inspires me to write, because there is occasionally ingenious morales, tidbits, and ideas in their stories that deserves to be explored in a different setting altogether.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is call THE REMAINS OF CIVILIZATION. It is called that because I thought it sounded cool, and it is a science fiction comedy. Or something along that line. Aliens and government conspiracies had been the centre of so much conspiracy that I feel like it deserve an entire book of so poking fun at it. I mean, the concept of aliens controlling the world in secret is just something worth the entire journey of writing it. Oh boy, I think it is a pretty good mix between borderline humour and science fiction. What every good science fiction story have. It took me ages to draft it, but it will be worthy it if I get to see it in a bookshop and be able to brag about it to my friends.
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