- Fiction, Science fiction, Short stories, American literature
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece. 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).
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- Author
- Ken Liu
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Saga Press, Gallery / Saga Press, Speaking Tiger
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781784975692
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“There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe.”
Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies. Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. The series is published by Simon & Schuster. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Liu)
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