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.
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.
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Speculative fiction gained one of its most decorated short works with "The Paper Menagerie," the first piece of short fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards simultaneously. American author Ken Liu expanded his influential body of work through acclaimed short fiction collections such as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and through his groundbreaking translations of contemporary Chinese science fiction, including Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem and Death's End.
Born in 1976 in Lanzhou, China, Liu emigrated to the United States at eleven years old. He studied at Harvard University, earning an undergraduate concentration in English before later receiving a doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. Prior to becoming a full-time author and translator, his professional background spanned roles as a software programmer and corporate attorney. His translation work played an essential role in bringing modern Chinese science fiction to international recognition, earning prestigious honors both in the United States and abroad.
Liu's fiction spans science fiction and fantasy, frequently examining technology as a language and exploring themes of history, memory, identity, and human connection. He coined the term "silkpunk" to describe a technology aesthetic that replaces traditional fantasy tropes with classical East Asian engineering traditions, as showcased in his epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty. A highly prolific writer with well over 150 short stories, novelettes, and novellas to his credit, he has also written novel-length works including Jumpnauts: A Novel, while consulting and speaking on topics ranging from futurism and virtual reality to machine-augmented creativity.
4 books in catalog
Speculative fiction gained one of its most decorated short works with "The Paper Menagerie," the first piece of short fiction to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards simultaneously. American author Ken Liu expanded his influential body of work through acclaimed short fiction collections such as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and through his groundbreaking translations of contemporary Chinese science fiction, including Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem and Death's End.
Born in 1976 in Lanzhou, China, Liu emigrated to the United States at eleven years old. He studied at Harvard University, earning an undergraduate concentration in English before later receiving a doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. Prior to becoming a full-time author and translator, his professional background spanned roles as a software programmer and corporate attorney. His translation work played an essential role in bringing modern Chinese science fiction to international recognition, earning prestigious honors both in the United States and abroad.
Liu's fiction spans science fiction and fantasy, frequently examining technology as a language and exploring themes of history, memory, identity, and human connection. He coined the term "silkpunk" to describe a technology aesthetic that replaces traditional fantasy tropes with classical East Asian engineering traditions, as showcased in his epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty. A highly prolific writer with well over 150 short stories, novelettes, and novellas to his credit, he has also written novel-length works including Jumpnauts: A Novel, while consulting and speaking on topics ranging from futurism and virtual reality to machine-augmented creativity.
