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# Read ^ The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Beautifully written and greatly varied stories, from delicately imagined to depressing and thought-provoking Karen A. Wyle This book draws one in gently, but soon travels to dark places.The first two stories introduce the reader to the delicacy, originality and beauty of Liu's imagination, expressed in science fiction and in fantasy. The more pervasive themes of this collection include the historical (and alt-historical) interactions between Americans, Chinese, and Japanese, in various combinati
| Title | : | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 148142436X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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.. 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
The title tale (which swept the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards), in which a mother expresses love for her son through the magically animated origami animals she creates, is one of several in which the author uses Chinese-American experience to explore how all individuals assimilate into society. (Mar.)\n . In "Good Hunting," the human companion of a supernatural creature from Chinese folklore contrives an ingenious way to help her adapt to a steampunk future. Whether writing about Asian culture and history, as in "The Literomancer" and "All the Flavors," or extraterrestrial civilizations, as in "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" and "An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition," Liu (The Gr
He also translated the 2015 Hugo Award–winning novel The Three-Body Problem, written by Cixin Liu, which is the first novel to ever win the Hugo award in translation. The Grace of Kings, his debut novel, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series set in a universe he and his wife, artist Lisa Tang Liu,
Beautifully written and greatly varied stories, from delicately imagined to depressing and thought-provoking Karen A. Wyle This book draws one in gently, but soon travels to dark places.The first two stories introduce the reader to the delicacy, originality and beauty of Liu's imagination, expressed in science fiction and in fantasy. The more pervasive themes of this collection include the historical (and alt-historical) interactions between Americans, Chinese, and Japanese, in various combinations; the internal conflicts of those whose heritage or history includes two or more o. Stunningly Gorgeous Stories That Have it All! SarahH Paper Tiger is my new favorite short story collection. The title story and "Mono No Aware" are worth the price of the book (and I bought the hardback)! Liu develops complex characters faster than anyone I've ever read, and his stories have interesting plots. Some of them are science fiction, folkloric, strange, or fantastical. Others are pure literary. Either way, it's a tough book to put down because each story is better than the last. He employs rich langu. Human centered science fiction Engaging, excellent flow provides the bedrock for expanding science fiction in what it's always done best - use the lens of the unfamiliar to examine our deeply held beliefs.In this case, the European centric assumptions must science fiction fans being are contrasted with a larger context that includes Asia. The result is fresh, illuminating, entertaining, cerebral, and deeply human. The stories serve less to show us how we're different than to include us al
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