The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

De: Ken Liu

Narrado por: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski

A publishing event: Best-selling 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 and Other Stories. 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 finalist); "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.

©2016 Ken Liu. All rights reserved. (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Great group of stories

I picked this up because I saw the love death and robots sticker. Each story was great unto itself and together made for a happy listening exp

Fantastic collection, great stories!

Ken Liu is an incredible talent and mesmerizing storyteller. His tales remind me of the creativity of Phillip K. Dick.

I wished Audible listed the chapter NAMES in the listings, instead of just the chapter numbers.

1. Introduction
2. The Book Making Habits of Select Species
3. State Change
4. The Perfect Match
5. Good Hunting
6. The Literomancer
7. Simulacrum
8. The Regular, Part 1
9. The Regular, Part 2
10. The Paper Menagerie
11. An Advanced Reader’s Picture Book of Comparative Cognition
12. The Waves
13. Mono no aware
14. All The Flavors, Part 1
15. All The Flavors, Part 2
16. A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel
17. The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
18. The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary, Part 1
19. The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary, Part 2

Strong and powerful

I found this book refreshing and engaging. I can't wait to read it again. I'd definitely call it a triumph!

Fantastic!

Amazingly done and also an artful and poignant look into Chinese and Chinese-American culture. An extremely significant work of art.

The Ken Liu Touch

When you mix culture with science and add human experience to it. Ken Liu happens.

Everything I read science fiction for!

While I like a good space battle as well as the next person, I ultimately read science fiction for the ideas. This book is filled with wonderfully crafted stories which examine fascinating questions. What does it do to the human heart when it is possible to suppress emotions? If it is possible to go back in time and witness history, should we do it? What is our real connection to the past?

Be patient and savor these gems. Great stories. Great characters. Loving performances.

Brilliant.

Outstanding

Picked this up after listening to the author’s Audible Original, “The Armies of Those I Love.” I really enjoy Ken Liu’s prose, and these short stories (more often than not) are a wonderful blend of heart, unique ideas, history, and sci-fi/fantasy. Also, both narrators were fantastic!

Outstanding short stories

Some of the most fascinating, insightful and beautifully written sets of short stories I’ve read to date. Nearly every story shines and left me thinking about something new, and they’re brought to life by the two narrators in this audiobook. Many are also told in unique styles and formats. Would absolutely recommend if you’re a fan of science fiction, historical fiction, or unique cultural insights and perspectives. If I see a physical copy on the shelf somewhere, I’m adding it to my collection.

Pretty good!

There were several stories I really loved and some that were just Ok. Two Thumbs up

Imaginative, thought provoking, cheesy

I'm impressed. Fifteen stories, each set in its own richly developed world, unique and yet just like ours in the most important ways. Thought-provoking questions.

And yet many stories suffer from the same flaw: just when the world is developed, the story seems to be told, and things are winding down a new details pops in, unbelievable and disjointed. This "there's one more thing" is always too unexpected and just a little too cheesy to fit with the rest of the story. The grandfather reveal in The Man Who Ended History is one example, but several stories contain this. I feel like this devalues the otherwise very well written stories and wish the author spent a bit more time integrating these plot points into the stories.

Still, the stories made me think and it was interesting to explore each new world. I am still recommending this book to friends.