The Paper Menagerie
by Ken Liu · 2016
Buy on AmazonPresents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece. 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).
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"This is a beautifully curated collection of an award-winning author’s best work, with stories ranging from hard science fiction to historical fantasy to surreal extended metaphors. In “State Change,” a woman’s soul is an ice cube she must keep from melting; in “All the Flavors,” a child in 1870s Idaho meets the red-faced god of war and listens to his stories. The final story — appropriately named “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” — is a harrowing meditation on nations, memory, responsibility and to whom the past can rightly be said to belong. Spanning history and biology, physics and folk tales, Liu speaks the language of stories with devastating eloquence."
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