KEN LIU is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation.
This is the first collection of his work - sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking
Included here are The Man Who Ended History:
1 Documentary (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), Mono No Aware (Hugo Award winner), The Wares (Nebula Award finalist), The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (Nebula and Theodore 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.