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Ken Liu‘s given me some durned good breakfast reading over the last couple weeks. THE HIDDEN GIRL AND OTHER STORIES is a strong collection for pure entertainment value, though the pieces do revisit a lot of the same ideas from only slightly different angles.

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 164.
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‘There is paradox at the heart of the art of fiction ... May you find a story in here to make your home. ‘

I know we all know this but the author has articulated this so beautifully in his Preface .. I‘ve only read 2 stories so far & I can‘t stop thinking about them 💫

Great writing and some interesting stories about uploading human consciousness. But the collection as a whole was strangely organised.
Still very much worth reading.

Short stories from an author I have wanted to try for quite a while.

I had heard of Ken Liu, and knew he was a translator of popular, award-winning Chinese science fiction, but until I read the New York Times profile last December (Why Is Chinese Sci-Fi Everywhere Now? Ken Liu Knows), I was unaware that he wrote himself. His new collection of short stories, Hidden Girl, has just been published, and it is brilliant. I haven‘t been genuinely thrilled by a new work of fiction in ages—these stories are superb.

I received an #ARC in exchange for an honest review. I'd LOVED his first collection, The Paper Menagerie, so I was really looking forward to this one. I was not disappointed. More speculative fiction than hard sci-fi or fantasy, there are elements of all across the stories. Fascinating read. Full review here:

https://www.librarything.com/work/23564712/details/177155187

And mad applause to Richard Yoo who designed the brilliant cover. ❤️

ARC for review. I absolutely LOVED Liu's first collection, The Paper Menagerie, so requested this one from #netgalley. I've only read a quarter of the book, but I'm already impressed. #TheHiddenGirlAndOtherStories
Also: that cover! ❤️❤️❤️

Pub Date 25 Feb 2020