The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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Ken Liu
Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories 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 and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many 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). Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.
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Author
Ken Liu
Pages
464
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2016-03-08
ISBN
1481424378 9781481424370
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"“Salt made the blandest food palatable. Salt was like wit and laughter in conversation. Salt made the plain extraordinary. Salt made the simple beautiful. Salt was his soul. And salt made it harder to freeze.”
- The Paper Menagerie, State Change, Ken Liu "
Katie
"Some really, truly great stories in here. Great things for people looking for something that takes place in parts of Asia. I did skip a few that seemed beyond my capabilities, but the more straightforward things I really loved. <br/><br/>"
Andrew Greene
"If you like well-written, creative, depressing stories, especially with Asian themes, you've found your author. I was pretty sad reading most of these and I DNF'd the last one. Glad it's over. Probably won't read anymore original works from Liu. The only one I would actually recommend is The Waves. <br/><br/><br/>The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species - 2.5/5 interesting, but not much of a story<br/>State Change -3.5/5 enjoyed it but it didn't make any sense<br/>The Perfect Match - 4/5 sort of a modern 1984. Kind of fun.<br/>Good Hunting - 3/5 well-written but would have been better in a longer format, i.e., needed more character development<br/>The Literomancer -3.5/5 good story but depressing<br/>Simulacrum - 2.5/5 fine<br/>The Regular - 3.5/5 good detective story. <br/>The Paper Menagerie - 4/5 I cried. <br/>An Advanced Readers’ Picture Book of Comparative Cognition - 3.5/5 interesting but could get invested. <br/>The Waves - 5/5 liked everything about it. <br/>Mono No Aware - 4 very good.<br/>All the Flavors - 4.5/5. This one is especially difficult to rate because it's literary fiction, which I don't really care for. But it is an excellent, well-written story. <br/>A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel - 4/5. Well-written, interesting, sad story. <br/>The Litigation Master and the Monkey King - 3.5/5 Well-written, sad story<br/>The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary - DNF for graphic sexual and gruesome violence"
Sarah Davis
"Lots of unique & innovative sci-fi & fantasy stories"
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Michael Armstrong
"Most memorable stories: The Waves, State Change, All the Flavours and Good Hunting (in that order)"
Janhavi
"Ken Liu is an amazing author and a great translator. Love all his books!"
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