“Judging was the luxury of those who did not need to survive.”
Before reading “The Paper Menagerie”, I only knew Ken Liu as the guy who translated the Three Body Problem - one of my favorite SciFi novels - from Mandarin to English. It turns out that not only is he a brilliant original story crafter himself, but also has an amazing range as a writer. The stories in “The Paper Menagerie” are beautiful, surreal, deeply moving and range from your typical SciFi stories to surprisingly profound and sometimes even gruesome. Highly recommend it if you are a fan of the genre.
“We have been wrong to be drunk and asleep. We should be drunk and fighting.”
