The Hidden Girl And Other Stories

"Ken Liu’s new collection of shorts spools out less like a series of discrete stories and more like a series of tightly interlinked, self-referential chapters of a distributed novel, broken up by diversions, digressions, thought experiments and a couple of pieces that read like intellectual exercises in imaginary brand PR. But there’s beauty to be found in them. Occasionally a deep strangeness. And always an intelligence that feels sharply forward-looking, if sometimes a little bit cold."