The Paper Menagerie

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Sixteen stories that range from a mother who folds origami animals that come alive to a man who discovers that the history of the Chinese railroad workers has been literally written into the landscape. Ken Liu's first collection won more awards than any debut in the history of the genre — Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy — and the title story alone has made grown readers weep in public. Liu writes science fiction and fantasy that is always, at its core, about the immigrant experience: translation, loss, the things that survive crossing between worlds and the things that don't. The range is extraordinary — from epic to intimate, from ancient China to distant futures — but the emotional register is consistent: precise, humane, and devastating. The collection that established Ken Liu as the most important voice in contemporary speculative fiction — and the title story that will ruin you.