Mr. Liu is like any accomplished writer, they are more often misread than correctly appreciated. Even himself cannot see how vastly different between his own i

Mr. Liu is like any accomplished writer, they are more often misread than correctly appreciated. Even himself cannot see how vastly different between his own ideal and the reality in his writing. For example, LIU proclaimed Arthur Clark as his role model. But his writing just has little resemblance of Clark's detailed subtle and mind grabbing magic. Liu's works always are presenting a grand idea, but presenting details from normal guys perspective. That makes it more of a Asimov writter. But his ideas are often more abstract than Asimov's, and make them closer to what Frank Herbert did in dune, but again, Herbert's work had much better dialogue and subtlety than LIU's. And of course, because of the vastly different cultural background, most of the details are lost to western readers, making them, although still fluent thanks to the nice translation, througly bland in all aspects other than the high ideas.