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The story is about Jack, a first-generation American son of a white American father and a Chinese immigrant mail-order bride mother. As a child, Jack is enchanted by his mother's magical ability to make origami paper animals come to life. These paper creatures play with him, comfort him, and become a vivid representation of the intimate bond he ...
Liu's short story "The Paper Menagerie" is the first work of fiction, of any length, to win all of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. [1]In addition, his short story, "Mono no aware" won the 2013 Hugo Award, [22] [23] and his novella "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" was also nominated for a Hugo. [24]
Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie & Other Short Stories in 2016 includes a short story titled The Literomancer which references the February 28 incident from the perspective of a young American girl who had recently moved to Taiwan, and asks both her father, who works on an American military base, and a neighbor, and old man named Mr. Kan about the ...
The Paper Menagerie (2011) by Ken Liu [119] The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace [120] Ready Player One (2011) by Ernest Cline [121] Bleeding Edge (2013) by Thomas Pynchon [122] A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James [123] Satin Island (2015) by Tom McCarthy [124] The Day the Sun Died (2015) by Yan Lianke [125]
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to The Guardian 's weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008.
Charles Vess (born June 10, 1951) [1] is an American fantasy artist and comics artist who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His influences include British "Golden Age" book illustrator Arthur Rackham, Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and comic-strip artist Hal Foster, among others.
Will McIntosh (William D. McIntosh, born January 31, 1962 in New York City) is a science fiction and young adult author, a Hugo-Award -winner, and a winner or finalist for many other awards. Along with ten novels, including Defenders, Love Minus Eighty, and Burning Midnight, he has published dozens of short stories in magazines such as Asimov's ...
Theodora Goss was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States as a child. [4] [2] She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Boston University [3] She is also a graduate of the Odyssey and Clarion writing workshops, and sold her first published story, "The Rose in Twelve Petals," while a student at Clarion.