From the publisher:
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.
The audiobook version is narrated by Corey Brill and Joy Osmanski. Here’s a sample.
Here’s my round-up post of reviews, essays, and interviews about the book.
Praise for The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I’m in awe.
– Jamie Ford – NYT bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
[A] brilliant, substantial, yet somehow still all-too-short collection of stories and novellas… It’s bursting with stories yearning to be told to everyone, and it’s a volume that absolutely everyone should read.
– Andrew Liptak writing for The B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
These remarkable stories highlight Liu’s themes of family, love, and politics and gathered in one collection pack an even bigger punch. Those who revere shorter speculative works will definitely want this book.
– Library Journal starred review
Gracefully written and often profoundly moving, these stories are high-water marks of contemporary speculative fiction.
– Publishers Weekly starred review
I have never been so moved by a collection of short fiction. I was at times afraid to read more.
– Amal El-Mohtar writing for NPR
Full table of contents:
- Preface
- The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
- State Change
- The Perfect Match
- Good Hunting
- The Literomancer
- Simulacrum
- The Regular
- The Paper Menagerie
- An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition (previously unpublished)
- The Waves
- Mono no aware
- All the Flavors
- A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel
- The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
- The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
