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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 ...
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: Arc 2012 F&SF, September/October issue, September 2012 Summer Reading 2012 Daily Science Fiction, September 4, 2012 The Waves 2012 Liu, Ken (December 2012). "The Waves". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (12): 38–51. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: Novelette The Perfect Book 2012
1. Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and social alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) that was adapted into a movie of the same name.
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 ...
Background. Ken Liu drew his inspiration for The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species from his admiration of stories about whole groups of people or ideas, like Italo Calvino 's Invisible Cities. This was his first serious attempt at writing in this style. Through this short story, Liu wanted to imagine forms of writing different from human's ...
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]
B.H. Rogers giving a talk at Eurocon 2007 in Copenhagen. Bruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and Spain's Premio Ignotus.
Jeffrey Ford at KGB bar, 2006. Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955) is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales.