Ken Liu
Hardcover | Pages: 453 pages Rating: 4.39 | 15114 Users | 2453 Reviews
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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.
Details Out Of 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 |
Rating Out Of Books The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ratings: 4.39 From 15114 Users | 2453 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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. II 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
This short story won the 2011 Nebula Prize for Short Fiction. The Paper Menagerie is a very quick 15 or so page read about a young man's relationship with his mother. The narrator is half American/half Chinese and his mother came to live in the suburbs of Connecticut as a mail order bride. He can't understand why she was ever a mail order bride, why his father married her, and why she won't learn English or try harder to fit into American culture. The strongest connection between mother and son
I rated each story separate in updates and I could make average rating but I'm not going to do that. Whole is more than sum of it's parts and as a whole this short story collection is an easy 5 stars and only short story collection that I give 5 stars that isn't written by Ray Bradbury. Best stories in this collection are among best I read overall and even "lesser" ones didn't left me indifferent.In genre stories are rather diverse. There is good ol' hard sci-fi, alternative history and
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
I don't remember when I read this. I do remember the overwhelming sadness it left behind though. This is a short story about a boy whose mother is a mail order bride from Hong Kong. It is also a story of prejudices and a boy's shame. He wished her to be the same as everyone around them. It would take years for the collection of origami animals made by his mother when he was a child to come alive and give him a special message. Beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
short story collections are always challenging to review. that said, with this blend of sci-fi, magical realism, history, and speculative fiction in general, ken liu has done something amazing. he explores themes of individual identity and cultural identity, the merging between the two, and looks at the humanity of expression by deconstructing language.some stories are short and simple. others are infinitely more layered. all of them are heartrending in various ways. one of the main themes
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