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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

by Ken Liu
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
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A publishing event: Bestselling 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. 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 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).

A must-have for every science fiction and fantasy fan, this beautiful book is an anthology to savor.

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Release date: March 4, 2016

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Ken Liu

Ken Liu

Ken Liu writes where myth meets machine, where language becomes a bridge between worlds both ancient and imagined. Born in Lanzhou, China, and raised in the United States, he grew up between languages, always aware that translation between cultures, between past and future, is a kind of storytelling in itself. That awareness threads through all his work, from his award-winning short fiction to the sweeping Dandelion Dynasty series, which reimagines history through the lens of invention and rebellion.

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Before becoming a full-time writer, Liu studied programming and law at Harvard, working as a software engineer and attorney. Those years gave him a fascination with systems such as legal, mechanical, and digital ones, and with the ways people bend them to serve emotion and meaning. His fiction often begins where logic ends, asking what happens when human longing collides with the precision of code or the machinery of empire.

His short story The Paper Menagerie, the first ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, remains one of the most celebrated in modern speculative literature. It is a quiet story about love, identity, and the things we fold away when we try to belong. Later collections such as The Hidden Girl and Other Stories continued to explore those questions, balancing science fiction’s curiosity with the intimacy of memory and myth.

Through his Dandelion Dynasty novels, Liu coined the term “silkpunk,” a vision of epic fantasy powered not by magic but by artistry, craftsmanship, and the imagination of engineers. Airships and war kites, living machines and ancient poetry coexist in a world shaped by history yet unbound by it. The result is storytelling that feels both timeless and freshly invented, steeped in the rhythms of East Asian philosophy and the pulse of modern innovation.

Beyond his own fiction, Liu has brought Chinese science fiction to global audiences through his translations of works such as The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and his edited anthologies Invisible Planets and Broken Stars. His translation work carries the same empathy and precision as his prose, opening a dialogue between literary traditions that had long spoken past one another.

Now living near Boston with his family, Liu continues to write stories that look both backward and forward, toward myth, technology, and the fragile connections that make us human. His work challenges readers to imagine not just new worlds but new ways of understanding the one we already share.

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