13 visions of the future from China, translated by Hugo award winning translator and author Ken Liu.
Ken Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu's other works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, and Star Wars tie-in The Legends of Luke Skywalker, and a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work including the short story 'Good Hunting', adapted as an episode in Netflix's animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. 'The Hidden Girl', 'The Message', and The Grace of Kings have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism, cryptocurrency, the mathematics of origami, and others. Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
There is fabulous variety in this book, ranging from hard Science
Fiction to near-future social Science Fiction... a fine
collection'
*SF Crowsnest*
Dreamlike and hypnotic, evocative and inspiring
*The Bookbag*
A wonderful collection, it's thoughtful and entertaining fiction
that as a western reader opens your eyes to science fiction written
by a different, rich culture. My favourite short story collection
of the year
*SF Book Reviews*
With stories ranging over social control, world-building rats and
redundant robots who have outlived the humans who made them, this
is a collection that will stimulate and delight
*Daily Mail*
Whether or not Chinese SF really is a creature all to itself, on
this evidence it's certainly worth reading
*Interzone*
An excellent introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and the
subtleties of woven symbology and allegory as intellectual
discourse. To characterise some this content as stories of protest
would deny them their detail, layers and intelligence
*Concatenation*
Even what doesn't happen is epic
*London Review of Books*
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