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The Paper Menagerie: Ken Liu Copertina flessibile – 8 settembre 2016

Edizione Inglese di Ken Liu (Autore)
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Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work - sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking.

Included here are: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Finalist for Hugo, Nebula, and 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 ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).

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  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Head of Zeus
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    8 settembre 2016
  5. Dimensioni
    19.9 x 3 x 13.1 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1784975699
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1784975692
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Each of the fifteen stories in this collection is a jewel of fantastical storytelling, written by a man who not only knows how to convey complex and fascinating scientific and philosophical ideas but who is also able to transform those ideas, and use them to highlight the beauty and fragility of the human condition. It is a genuine work of art, a complete joy to read, and very very highly recommended ― Starburst Magazine

The Paper Menagerie is distinguished not only by its inventive imagination and emotional acuity - it has, as a whole, an impressive and cumulative coherence... The glittering wit on the surface of these pieces belies their righteous anger and profound melancholy... The finale is a revelation... It is a wrenching, ethically complex and deeply uncomfortable story, with the subtle balance of testimonies and arguments never compromising its horror' ― TLS

Now and then along comes a writer who can create a mood so evocative the length of the tale has no bearing on how long you live with its cast, and linger, curled up, inside its bubble... Ken Liu is such a writer... By the end of this collection, you return, blinking, into the sharp light of the here and now, and mourn those few short days when you were floating in Liu, heady with the thrill of a life in which your senses were sparked up like phosphorescent antennae to the wonders of our existence on this "boat in space"' ― The Big Issue

When he's good, Liu is very very very good indeed ― SFX

Liu's imagery never ceases to impress; he combines interesting backdrops to accentuate a whole host of intricate reactions, making him a true master of emotion and authenticity... The Paper Menagerie will cement Liu as a once-in-a-lifetime author. Certainly his work is both stimulating and intoxicating and is the catalyst that sees contemporary Chinese fiction propelled to the forefront of sci-fi, 10/10' ― SciFiNow

Some of the stories are head-spinningly fantastic and almost surreal in their inventiveness ― Irish Times

This captivating collection of award-winning short stories is full of wonder and magical realism ― Buzzfeed

There is plenty of evidence here to justify Liu's status as a new writer with great potential. This is the best book I have read so far this year. Highly recommended. -- Mark Bilsborough, Concatenation

An exquisite collection of work. More layers of meaning await its readers who can't fail to find something moving and intelligent in the writing of Ken Liu -- Allen Stroud, Concatenation.

Ken Liu isn't just an entertaining and original author - though he is certainly that - he is an important one. Here is an author using his life experience, his talent and skill as an author and every genre and literary tradition at his disposal to make the case that we are humans and individuals before we are ethnic groups or nationalities, and that multiculturalism is our future. ― Shoreline of Infinity magazine.

A truly wonderful selection from a first-rate storyteller... an excellent volume; entertaining, questioning, with mind-stretching ideas and places' ― New Books Magazine

The title story might break your heart a little. But that can never be such a bad thing. It's beautiful ― Jackie Morris

Glorious... The perfect anthology' ― A Dragon in Space

Descrizione del libro

The first collection of Ken Liu's multi-award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories.

Dettagli prodotto

  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Head of Zeus; 1° edizione (8 settembre 2016)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 448 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1784975699
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784975692
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 350 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 19.9 x 3 x 13.1 cm
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Lucas L.
4,0 su 5 stelle he has a way with words
Recensito in Canada il 10 marzo 2024
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Somehow, this the first short story collection I have ever read. I didn't think I would be a fan of short stories but it turns out, I am. Some of these stories were a little too sci-fi for my tastes but overall, the themes interweaved throughout the stories, and I really enjoyed most of them. he's clearly an amazing writer and has such a way with words so I'm really glad I sunk my teeth into this and can't wait to read more of this authors work.
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B. Morgan
3,0 su 5 stelle Amusant mais rien de spécial
Recensito in Francia il 3 settembre 2023
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Amusant mais rien de spécial. Je trouve la plupart de ses idées assez dérivées d’œuvres passées de science-fiction. En tant que lecteur de longue date du genre depuis mon plus jeune âge, il devient presque impossible de trouver un écrivain véritablement créatif et inventif. Au moins, je suis capable de lire jusqu'à la fin de chaque histoire, sans la jeter dans la pile toujours croissante de livres inachevables.
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Tom
5,0 su 5 stelle Amazing Book
Recensito in Germania il 7 aprile 2019
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I was watching Love Death and Robots on Netflix and found out that one of the stories was based on a short story by Ken Liu. Beeing interested in his other stories I ordered this book. I've read the first 7 stories so far and it's as good as I hoped it to be. Can only recommend to read it!
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Atulya Sinha
5,0 su 5 stelle STORIES FROM A VERSATILE GENIUS
Recensito in India il 17 gennaio 2019
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A Chinese heritage, an American upbringing, a global outlook, a legal education and a deep understanding of human nature are some of the important ingredients which have gone into the creation of the multi-faceted and versatile genius known as Ken Liu.

Ken, who was born in 1976, is one of the most accomplished writers of science fiction in the world today – someone who can rank alongside all-time greats like H.G.Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. His writing shows elements of both fantasy and science fiction – in fact, it goes beyond traditional genres.

The book under review is a collection of short stories. (The blurb says 16 stories, but I could count only 15 – just wondering if there is some fantasy or science fiction behind this!) Through these stories, Ken creates worlds which we would like to live in – and some that we emphatically do not want to inhabit. In “Perfect Match,” he describes a world that we may already be living in, without even realizing it – the world of intrusive social media and omniscient digital assistants who dictate each aspect of our lives!

One cannot succeed as a sci-fi writer without a basic knowledge of science or a talent for capturing the reader’s attention. Ken displays both these qualities – consider, for example, the following passage describing how the reader of a book gets connected to its author: “…light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random mutations; upside-down images are formed against two screens made up of millions of light-sensitive screens, which translate light into electrical pulses which go up the optic nerves, cross the chiasm, down the optic tracks, and into the visual cortex, where the pulses are reassembled into letters, punctuation marks, words, sentences, vehicles, tenors, thoughts… The entire system seems fragile, preposterous, science fictional.”

The extent of the author’s imagination can be glimpsed through stories like “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species,” which he begins as follows: “Time devours all… Yet every species has its unique way of passing on its wisdom through the ages, its way of making thoughts visible, tangible, frozen for a moment like a bulwark against the irresistible tide of time… Everyone makes books.”

The most striking story in this book is undoubtedly “The Paper Menagerie,” which has won each of the coveted Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. In the space of just 15 pages, the author spins an unforgettable tale of toys coming to life, the alienation felt by immigrants and – above all – a teenager rebelling against his mother and how he regrets his actions later.

In another story, “Simulacrum,” he presents a diametrically opposite viewpoint: “Perhaps it is the dream of every parent to keep their child in that brief period between helpless dependence and separate selfhood, when the parent is seen as perfect, faultless. It is a dream of control and mastery disguised as love, the dream that Lear had about Cordelia.”

This book was on my wish list for several months, but now I wish that I had ordered it earlier! I look forward to reading other books by Ken Liu.
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Cuentalibros
5,0 su 5 stelle Good reading
Recensito in Spagna il 16 aprile 2017
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Very well written, interesting seing things viewed from another cultural perspective. Not really science fiction, but more thought provoking stories.
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