作者：KenLiu
出版社：SagaPress
出版年：2015-11-3
页数：448
定价：USD24.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781481442541
内容简介
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Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots
Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories 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 many 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).
Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.
作者简介
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Ken Liu is one of the most lauded authors in the field of American literature. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus Sidewise, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, he has also been nominated for the Sturgeon and Locus Awards. His short story, “The Paper Menagerie,” is the first work of fiction to simultaneously win the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. He also translated the 2015 Hugo Award–winning novel The Three-Body Problem, written by Cixin Liu, which is the first novel to ever win the Hugo award in translation. The Grace of Kings, his debut novel, is the first volume in a silkpunk epic fantasy series set in a universe he and his wife, artist Lisa Tang Liu, created together. It was a finalist for a Nebula Award and the recipient of the Locus Award for Best First Novel. He lives near Boston with his family.
目录
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Preface
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
State Change
The Perfect Match
Good Hunting
The Literomancer
Simulacrum
The Regular
The Paper Menagerie
An Advanced Readers Picture Book of Comparative Cognition
The Waves
Mono no aware
All the Flavors
A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel
The Litigation Master and the Monkey King
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
评论 ······
miss you mom
catalog Vs 介绍册，chink face VS 中国佬。纸鹤 VS crane。 语言的诅咒就在于语言使用起来太便捷了。如果不是一句话用两种语言说各说一遍，意涵和语言的距离。好像有点明白了为什么诗要追求语言的陌生化，也是要去显示这种距离、打破这种便捷吧。
就实际上大多数故事细细一想都是很chliché的情节，但是刘宇昆还蛮会写的，一旦混进了亚洲元素（中国、日本、亚裔、移民）就变得很有意思，zz隐喻很多，以及一些文字读起来脑子里忍不住冒中文……有几篇感觉，写得不够利落
刘老师的故事，平铺直叙，却有暗流涌动，我看一个哭一个
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