This year's Singapore Writers Festival will be held from Nov 7 to 16, with the theme Shape Of Things To Come. The event will feature more than 200 programmes and 300 presenters – including bestselling novelists, poets and cartoonists.

This year's edition will feature new tracks such as SG60 Homage and Sci-fi Spotlight. The former pays tribute to Singapore's publishing history, while the latter shows how the genre imagines distant worlds while drawing on history.

Among participating authors are American fantasy and sci-fi authors Ken Liu and RF Kuang, as well as China's Hao Jingfang.

Liu is the multi-award winning writer behind The Dandelion Dynasty fantasy series as well as The Paper Menagerie short story collection, while Kuang is the bestselling author behind The Poppy War trilogy an

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