Books like The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu's first collection, from the title story of a Chinese mother whose paper animals come to life for her son to stories of artificial minds, colonial Hong Kong and a historian who lets people witness the crimes of Unit 731.
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Eight stories spanning alien linguistics, time travel, and the nature of mathematical truth, including the novella that became the film Arrival.
Exhalation
Nine stories that use science fiction premises to explore free will, time, language, and the nature of consciousness with philosophical precision.
The Measure
One morning everyone in the world over twenty-two wakes to find a box at the door holding a string, and the length of each string turns out to show how long its owner will live.
How High We Go in the Dark
In 2030 a plague released from thawing Siberian permafrost begins to spread, and over the following centuries a chain of linked lives, from a theme park for dying children to a ship sent to find a new home, learn how to grieve and to go on.
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
One hundred stories spanning Ray Bradbury's career, from Martian landscapes to small-town nostalgia to the dark corners of the human heart.
Real Americans
In New York in 1999 Lily Chen, twenty-two and the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is scraping by on an unpaid internship when she falls for Matthew, the son of an enormously rich family. In 2021 their teenage son, Nick, who knows little of where he comes from, goes looking for his father.
Minor Feelings
Hong writes about Asian-American shame, Richard Pryor, friendship, and why the minor feelings of a model-minority life refuse to stay put.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
In 2045 Dorothy Moy, a Seattle poet afraid of passing her depression to her daughter, tries a treatment that lets her relive the memories of her ancestors, back to Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to come to America, in 1834.
The Illustrated Man
A drifter whose body is covered in tattoos that move and tell stories after dark meets a young man on a country road, and each picture becomes one of eighteen stories, from a nursery that comes to life to the last night of the world.
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston grows up in her family's laundry in Stockton, California, on her mother's ghost stories and Chinese legends, and sets them beside her own life as the American daughter of immigrants.
The Stolen Child
Henry Day, seven, runs away and is taken by changelings who leave one of their own in his place, and while the changeling grows up as Henry, the real boy lives on in the woods as Aniday.
The Lathe of Heaven
A man in a near-future Portland discovers he can reshape reality through his dreams, and a psychiatrist tries to exploit the power to fix the world.