The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu · 2016
Liu's stories bridge Chinese-American experience and speculative fiction in ways that expand both traditions. The title story won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards simultaneously; the first story ever to achieve that triple crown.
The case against
Fifteen stories, and the gap between best and worst is wide. Liu's weaker pieces are concept demos with characters attached, the title story works your tear ducts with both hands, and the Unit 731 novella leans so hard on documentary atrocity that the fiction around it nearly evaporates. Skim where needed; the great ones repay it.
Short Stories · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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