We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves – they’re the essence of memory. The universe is accidental and senseless, and the stories in The Paper Menagerie have a clear objective: they are tools in a search for meaning and truth.įor me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors – which is the logic of narratives in general – over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless. Liu is quite explicit about his philosophical framework and goals in the preface. Only four are significantly longer: 38, 55, 61 and 95 pages. They have all been published elsewhere before, except one. The stories are short indeed: most are about 20 pages.
Yes, that’s a great title, and an even better cover! The 450 page collection features 15 short stories and novellas, almost all of them from around 2012.
March 2016 saw the publication of The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories. Ken Liu is on quite a spree this year: in October Tor will publish his translation of Cixin Liu’s Death’s End, the concluding volume to The Three-Body trilogy, in November Saga will publish The Wall Of Storms, the sequel to Liu’s own The Grace Of Kings, and November will see the release of Invisible Planets, an anthology of Chinese SF stories & essays, all of which he translated.
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