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Ken Liu
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Year End
Looking Back…
This isn’t a summary of everything I’ve done (not enough) and all the wonderful things that happened to me (incredible) this year. I don’t enjoy looking back on a year near its end and summing up all the “accomplishments” — I much prefer the Belichickian “We’re on to 2024” — but I do want to take a moment to be grateful for all the wonderful things that happened to me in my last 12 mo
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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2016
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The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
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2015
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47 editions
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The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2)
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2016
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29 editions
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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
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2020
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28 editions
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The Cleaners
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2020
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4 editions
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
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2016
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19 editions
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The Paper Menagerie
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2011
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6 editions
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The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)
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2021
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13 editions
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Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)
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2022
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14 editions
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Star Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker
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“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Polls
Poll for series to start October 1, 2022
Dandelion Dynasty, 4 books, by Ken Liu, starting with The Grace of Kings
Riddle-Master, 3 books, by Patricia A. McKillip, starting with The Riddle-Master of Hed
Sharing Knife/Wide Green World, 4 books, by Lois McMaster Bujold, starting with Beguilement
The Winter of the World, original 3 books, by Michael Scott Rohan, starting with The Anvil of Ice
War for the Rose Throne, 4 books, by Peter McLean, starting with Priest of Bones
Parasol Protectorate, 5 books by Gail Carriger, starting with Soulless
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| 75 Books...More o...: Candiss's 2012 Challenge | 21 | 31 | Apr 01, 2012 06:47PM | |
| The Sword and Laser: 2011 Nebula Award Nomonee Short Story Discussion - "The Paper Menagerie" | 6 | 46 | Apr 29, 2012 06:55AM | |
Chaos Reading:
Asian Lit Original Thread [closed]
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66 | 135 | Jul 03, 2012 07:24AM | |
| Bookworm Bitches : Books Read in June 2012 | 37 | 176 | Jul 05, 2012 04:24AM | |
| Beyond Reality: Nebula Nom: The Paper Menagerie, by Ken Liu | 19 | 81 | Aug 22, 2012 11:34AM | |
| 2024 Reading Chal...: Candiss - 60 Books | 17 | 48 | Nov 28, 2012 07:33PM | |
| The Sword and Laser: Nominees for 2012 Nebula Awards | 15 | 144 | Feb 21, 2013 11:54AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2012 Nebula Awards Winners announced | 19 | 82 | May 20, 2013 04:28PM | |
| The Sword and Laser: Hugo Award Finalists | 69 | 483 | Sep 07, 2013 11:54PM | |
| Chaos Reading: Bookshelf Nominations: OBSCURE SHORT STORIES [now online] | 27 | 168 | Nov 26, 2013 01:34AM |
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