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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)

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Hardcover | Pages: 453 pages

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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.

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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

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Ratings: 4.39 From 15114 Users | 2453 Reviews

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I 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

It is more of a 2.5 stars rating. If nothing else, this book is a huge improvement over the godawful The Grace of Kings ripoff crap by the same author.Furthermore, I am actually glad that readers might learn a bit more about modern Chinese history, traditional cultures and practices; but honestly as a Chinese, this Ken Liu guy didn't tell me anything I don't know or help me to look at things with a new angle. What a disappointment. Even worse, I don't get along with any of the Sci-Fi stuff he

Well, this short story made me cry more in 15 pages than any other book I've read this year -- except for Patrick Ness's gut punches masquerading as books. This story of the Chinese-American son of a mail order bride who learns of his otherness from cruel neighborhood kids and begins to resent the source of his difference, his mother, was heartbreaking, poignant, and familiar. It reminded me of all the times my brother and I would refuse to eat with chopsticks or speak Korean, how we demanded

This sounds to me like something a college sophomore would write because he's like "If I write about my heritage and sad dead mom my creative writing professor pretty much has to give me an A, right?" And when he reads it in class everyone says it's great because emotions, man, except that one sortof bitchy darkhaired girl who listens to a lot of Tori Amos and everybody hates her except you, you kindof have a crush on her, and in fact next year you will have a brief, disappointing relationship

4.5 stars.I've been meaning to read Ken Liu's collection of short stories for a quite a while. His translation for two of Cixin Liu's books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy was excellent and I've heard a lot of great things about the titular short story of this collection.In my opinion, the preface alone warrants at least a 5-star and an award. Liu's writing is utterly beautiful and profound, and one can clearly see how talented and intelligent this author is just from reading his

I wanted to love this short story collection, but most of Ken Liu's characters fell flat. These stories contain so much good stuff: fascinating elements of science-fiction and fantasy, themes that include culture and racism and fighting for justice, surprising turns of plot that keep you on your toes - but very few of them create a lasting emotional impact. Throughout reading these individual stories, I envisioned Liu thinking "oh, this could be a really cool *insert magical realism device or