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Jiang says he is working on an unpublished nine-book science-fiction saga and has completed three books.
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Science fiction
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...this is strange because I grew up watching a lot of science fiction. I love science fiction. I read a lot of Isaac Asimov,..."
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Jiang says that as a bullied immigrant child in Toronto he retreated into libraries and science fiction, especially Isaac Asimov, and that this early reading shaped his interest in psychohistory.
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"I'm a science fiction writer. I've been writing. I've been working on a nine part, a nine book science fiction saga. These past few..."
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"They're not published. I'm still working on it. It's just a passion of mine. I don't think it'll make any money."
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"...read a lot of books. I was a huge fan of science fiction. So my favorite, of course, was Isaac Asimov, The Psychohistory, but..."
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"...this is strange because I grew up watching a lot of science fiction. I love science fiction. I read a lot of Isaac Asimov,..."
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"I watched a lot of science fiction, like Star Trek, okay? I love that. So I love it if we could get to the..."
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"Or imagine, I'm thinking like a science fiction writer now. You, you are in this control grid, you see these Optimus robots, you think..."
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"...book that was published in China. I wrote a series of science fiction novels. It was just a time of tremendous creative output. And..."
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"...very avid reader and I was a very avid reader of science fiction and comic books, especially X -Men. And, you know, these are..."
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"...books, right? So it's stuck with, you know, like, literature and science fiction and fantasy."
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"...huge fan of Isaac Asimov. Um, because I was really into science fiction. And I just loved the way that he looked at the..."
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"...Because she writes romance novels. But, but, um, um, I recommend science fiction. Um, some good science fiction is John Wineham. W -Y -N..."
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"...And my reading is very broad. So, I love to read science fiction. I love to read history. I was a major fan of..."
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