While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

Music will save the world.

The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going to save the world, so there's a different tone that comes out in the way speculative fiction is done. That's refreshing to read.

With our love, we could save the world.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.