Ken Liu
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| Original Title: | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories |
| ISBN: | 1481442546 (ISBN13: 9781481442541) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award for Best Collection (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2016) |
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A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). A must-have for every science fiction and fantasy fan, this beautiful book is an anthology to savor.Declare About Books The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| Title | : | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Ken Liu |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 453 pages |
| Published | : | March 8th 2016 by Gallery / Saga Press |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Magical Realism. Anthologies. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.39 From 15114 Users | 2453 ReviewsCritique About Books The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
This sounds to me like something a college sophomore would write because he's like "If I write about my heritage and sad dead mom my creative writing professor pretty much has to give me an A, right?" And when he reads it in class everyone says it's great because emotions, man, except that one sortof bitchy darkhaired girl who listens to a lot of Tori Amos and everybody hates her except you, you kindof have a crush on her, and in fact next year you will have a brief, disappointing relationshipI loved this collection of stories. Beautiful prose, interesting ideas, and at times deeply sad. Ken Liu is clearly adept at a number of styles and subgenres; the collection ranges from coming of age to mystery to time travel to others. I was particularly moved by The Paper Menagerie story; it was wonderful and made me teary.I listened to this, and enjoyed the the use of two narrators. (On a side note, I also listened to LeVar Burton's interpretation (on his LeVar Reads podcast) of The Paper
4.5 stars.I've been meaning to read Ken Liu's collection of short stories for a quite a while. His translation for two of Cixin Liu's books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy was excellent and I've heard a lot of great things about the titular short story of this collection.In my opinion, the preface alone warrants at least a 5-star and an award. Liu's writing is utterly beautiful and profound, and one can clearly see how talented and intelligent this author is just from reading his
It is more of a 2.5 stars rating. If nothing else, this book is a huge improvement over the godawful The Grace of Kings ripoff crap by the same author.Furthermore, I am actually glad that readers might learn a bit more about modern Chinese history, traditional cultures and practices; but honestly as a Chinese, this Ken Liu guy didn't tell me anything I don't know or help me to look at things with a new angle. What a disappointment. Even worse, I don't get along with any of the Sci-Fi stuff he
Absolutely stunning collection of short stories which teach and entertain in equal measure. Ken Liu has an incredible imagination and these stories are all so different and yet all so amazing. I, like many others, come to Ken Liu after his superb translations of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem and Death's End and I can see that he was the perfect choice because his love of language and culture echoes that of Cixin Liu in many, many ways. I also saw some commonality in some of their sci fi
Absolutely stunning collection of short stories which teach and entertain in equal measure. Ken Liu has an incredible imagination and these stories are all so different and yet all so amazing. I, like many others, come to Ken Liu after his superb translations of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem and Death's End and I can see that he was the perfect choice because his love of language and culture echoes that of Cixin Liu in many, many ways. I also saw some commonality in some of their sci fi
Despite a shaky start a thoughtful story thats a tad too clinical for my liking this collection blew me away. Ken Liu talks in the preface about prizing the logic of metaphors and you can see how carefully he prizes that in his stories. Nearly every one works on multiple levels without feeling heavy handed. Some stories he manages to write historical fiction thats somehow science fiction at the same time, others are straight ahead sci-fi thrillers that could easily warrant an entire book. I
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