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  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Saga Press (March 8, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1481442546
  • ISBN-13: 978-1481442541
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.7 x 8.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn essential volume for anyone who loves SF, by one of the great talents in the field
By Robert Moore HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on February 25, 2016
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This is one of those books that is effortless to review and recommend, simply because it is as close to a self-recommending volume as you are ever going to find. The last SF short story collection that I can recall as being as strong as this one was Connie Willis's a couple of years ago, which is saying a lot, since I personally regard her as the finest living SF writer, and on the short list of the finest SF short story writers ever. Liu is not quite in Willis's league as a writer, at least not yet, mainly because she has, in addition to a string of stunning short stories, also written some of the most unforgettable SF novels of recent years. I will acknowledge that she has her detractors, mainly from those who insist that SF means hard SF. I will even cede that she may be more weird fiction than SF, since while many of her most famous novels involve time travel, no attempt is made to ground it in science. Let me just say that I regard SF writers as those who write for SF audiences, broadly conceived. There is no question that even if you prefer hard SF (which I don't), both Willis and Liu write for a SF audience.

Several of the stories in this story are simply brilliant. The title story swept the major SF awards for short stories, all the more remarkable because it is not terribly long, and too many stories that manage that kind of success tend to be more in the way of novellas than short stories. He manages in 15 pages to achieve an emotional density usually reserved for longer works. I had previously read several of the stories in the collection, but most of them were new to me. What impresses me most is the quality going from one story to another.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat talent! What fun!
By Tanstaafl VINE VOICE on February 28, 2016
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This author is obviously intelligent and expects his readers to use their noggins, too. I had run into the author only through reading his translation of Cixin Liu's “The Three-Body Problem”. That book was amazing which required Ken Liu to write at a level that moved not only the words but also the feeling of the book from Chinese to English.

I am not normally a reader of short stories because the stories are often (too-often for me) widely varying in both quality and interest. And, I do not read books of short fiction from cover to cover over a few days like novels. They make great reading when I'm between novels. Well, I started this with all that in mind. That plan didn't last long. The pages turned themselves making me (making me!) read and read and read. (This book made me do it!)

The quality of the writing is far beyond what I was expecting. The variety is amazing. There is a special skill needed to write short fiction. Each word must be carefully chosen. Each paragraph must move the story forward. Ken Liu knows how to do those things. There is fantasy, there is science fiction, there is even some mystery thrown in, plus there are some that I won't try to slot into any genre or hyphenated-sub-sub-genre. What was impressive was the consistency of the internal logic of each story.

I had volume one of his “Grace of Kings” series on my Amazon Wish List since it came out. At about page 20 of this book I went ahead and bought it. It will join my TBR pile that already has a couple of hundred books in it – but really close to the top. This is a writer to watch as he heads for the top of his profession, and he will stay there.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMasterful, Thoughtful Essays Having the Best Effect of Science Fiction, Philosophy and Literature
By Ira Laefsky VINE VOICE on February 25, 2016
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I first ran into Ken Liu in his Hugo-Award winning translation of "The Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu where I saw his talents of combining beautiful (English) language, a unique Asian flavor and technological accuracy. This multi-talented laureate of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards, is also a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and an accomplished technologist. Here I was able to dig into his talent for original fiction which could best be described as thoughtful and in-depth rather than either hard science fiction or fantasy. I was most amazed and drawn into hid "Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" where he describes the intimate relationship between written and recorded information and Karl Popper's Third World of Human Knowledge. That is the world of thought and that of recorded knowledge in all forms, physical, embedded in space and embedded in thought.

A masterwork.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBeautifully told, thoughtful stories
By Achala Upendran on March 8, 2016
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With his new book, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu shows that he is capable of vast range. Sure, in some of the stories you see the comic master who orchestrated coups and wondrous escapes in Dara, in others you see a thoughtful, poignant writer, who asks tough questions and leaves you with no certain answers. Many of these stories, such the one that gives the collection its title, ‘The Paper Menagerie’, have been published, read and loved before, and this book brings them together, to give it what Liu calls ‘the flavour of a retrospective’, a brief look at his career as a short story writer. Indeed, the idea of memory, and memory as a source of conflict and confluence in communication, seems a running theme in many of these narratives, most powerfully in the last story of the collection, ‘The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary’.

Though many stories are indeed stitched around the common theme of memory, recording, and how we retell stories, what I can say about Liu’s work is this: it is remarkably wide ranging. From the space-opera-like ‘The Waves’ to ‘All the Flavors’, the magical-realist novella set in early twentieth century Idaho, Liu presents a vast range of readerly experiences. The stories slip between science fiction and fantasy, and indeed, Liu confesses at the start that he doesn’t ‘pay much attention’ to the distinction between the two genres. He builds worlds that contain elements of both: for instance, in ‘Good Hunting’ (a story that reminded me inexplicably of Gaiman’s work) a young demon hunter meets a hulijing, a spirit who tests his ideas of good and bad.Read more ›
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