The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories 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 and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many 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).

Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.

Ken Liu is an award-winning speculative fiction novelist from the United States. The Paper Menagerie and Other Tales, his collection, has been translated into over a dozen languages. The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, The Veiled Throne, and a second collection, The Hidden Girl and Other Tales, are among Liu's other works. He has been engaged in a number of media adaptations of his work, including Netflix's animated series Love, Death + Robots' adaptation of his short tale Good Hunting, and AMC's Pantheon, which is based on an interwoven series of short stories. The Cleaners, The Hidden Girl, and The Message have all been optioned for development.

Liu has worked as a software engineer, a business lawyer, and a litigation consultant in the past. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities on topics such as futurism, bitcoin, technology history, and the importance of narrative. Liu lives near Boston, Massachusetts, with his family.

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ISBN 13 9781481424363
ISBN 10 148142436X
Title The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Author Ken Liu
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Year published 2016-10-04
Number of pages 464
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.