"I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. I’m interested in reading the other ones in this collection and see what else these authors can come up with in such few pages.Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robotsīestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection-including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. I found it fascinating and at times some of the ways in which this world was explained to be, reminded me a little bit of the world in the Uglies trilogy. It’s to help keep people only having happy memories and for them to be able to truly forget the bad ones like they never even existed at all. This is a skill that is very valuable and sought out in the world that they live in.
The Cleaners follows one man whose family is in the cleaning business of removing memories from items that people no longer work there. For Clara and Beatrice, deciding what to remember reaches to the heart of their shared history. Until her sister, Beatrice, ultrasensitive to memory, raises one that could change Clara’s mind. Clara can, and she prefers them irretrievable. Memory-blind himself, he can’t feel those wounds. Gui is a professional cleaner at A Fresh Start, scrubbing away the unpleasant layers of memory that build up on the personal objects of his customers. Touch the past or wash it away? Two sisters have a choice in this unforgettable short story of everyday magic and the power of memory by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Ken Liu.
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