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| 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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Hardcover | Pages: 453 pages Rating: 4.39 | 15114 Users | 2453 Reviews
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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.
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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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Ratings: 4.39 From 15114 Users | 2453 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
A review of all short stories in this collection featuring my parents!Herein contains a review unlike any other Ive done! I get home so infrequently that I drummed up the idea of involving my parents in some of my reading. My parents enjoy the odd book, but arent what I would describe as avid readers. So I proposed that I would read them a story a night (for 15 nights) from acclaimed sci-fi and fantasy author Ken Lius The Paper Menagerie. All they knew about the book prior to the reading wasA beautifully written, powerful anthology of first-rate speculative fiction stories.Ken Liu is an impressive guy, besides writing he is also a lawyer and a programmer. Many readers first read his translation of Liu Cixins Hugo award winning novel The Three-Body Problem. I read his 2014 Tor.com short work Reborn and so had a good idea he can produce a gem on his own.Building on ubiquitous themes of Asian-American cultural pluralities and Chinese myth and legend, Liu does an impressive job
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
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
Well, this short story made me cry more in 15 pages than any other book I've read this year -- except for Patrick Ness's gut punches masquerading as books. This story of the Chinese-American son of a mail order bride who learns of his otherness from cruel neighborhood kids and begins to resent the source of his difference, his mother, was heartbreaking, poignant, and familiar. It reminded me of all the times my brother and I would refuse to eat with chopsticks or speak Korean, how we demanded
I wanted to love this short story collection, but most of Ken Liu's characters fell flat. These stories contain so much good stuff: fascinating elements of science-fiction and fantasy, themes that include culture and racism and fighting for justice, surprising turns of plot that keep you on your toes - but very few of them create a lasting emotional impact. Throughout reading these individual stories, I envisioned Liu thinking "oh, this could be a really cool *insert magical realism device or
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