About this item
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 Kens 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 genres 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.
About the Author
Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. He has won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, as well as top genre honors in Japan, Spain, and France, among other places.Ken's debut novel, The Grace of Kings, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers play the role of wizards. His debut collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker.He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work. The most recent projects include "The Message," under development by 21 Laps and FilmNation Entertainment; "Good Hunting," adapted as an episode of Netflix's breakout adult animated series Love, Death Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, which Craig Silverstein will executive produce, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories by Ken.Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ken worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Ken frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, cryptocurrency, history of technology, bookmaking, the mathematics of origami, and other subjects of his expertise.Ken is also the translator for Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing," Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide, as well as the editor of Invisible Planets and Broken Stars, anthologies of contemporary Chinese science fiction.He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
