In Ken Liu’s new story, a text adventure game becomes a thing of wonder
Ken Liu mashes together so many things in his new story “The Clockwork Soldier,” over at Clarkesworld: a Scheherazade riff, a Zork-style text adventure, a strange fairy tale, and a Philip K. Dick-inspired tale of android sentience. And he makes it all come together beautifully. Top image: Waldemar Kazak. In “Clockwork Soldier,” we start out…
