The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu

出版社

Saga Press

出版时间

2015-11-02

ISBN

9781481442541

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.

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. 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).

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.

Ken Liu is one of the most lauded authors in the field of American literature. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus Sidewise, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, he has also been nominated for the Sturgeon and Locus Awards. His short story, “The Paper Menagerie,” is the first work of fiction to simultaneously win the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy A...

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目录
Preface
The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
State Change
The Perfect Match
Good Hunting

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同是写科幻短篇,Ted Chiang确实写得更好。
喜欢state change和the man who ended history
catalog Vs 介绍册,chink face VS 中国佬。纸鹤 VS crane。 语言的诅咒就在于语言使用起来太便捷了。如果不是一句话用两种语言说各说一遍,意涵和语言的距离。好像有点明白了为什么诗要追求语言的陌生化,也是要去显示这种距离、打破这种便捷吧。
Ken本人完成度最高的一本选集。The Regular的叙事非常不错,凌厉与温柔无缝对接,不过估计不会被翻成中文了……作为赛博格故事,比各种冷硬派更对我胃口,Good Hunting也是,不过方法论上看来更简单一些。失落历史之人不说了,中篇最佳,其它的几篇叙事比较丰富也比中文选本的好很多
整本书都透着一股淡淡的忧伤呢。
断断续续一年看完,真的是太好了!刘宇昆的文字确实细腻,每个故事其实都让人欲罢不能。读到很多时候都会不禁担心,这个东西别人可以理解吗,是不是真的只有在东西方文化里挣扎的人才能共情。
soft and subtle
Though better than Liu Cixin, no male sci-fi writers didn’t show their misogyny. I gave up many stories since he materialize females and put them in the place of being watched. Thus I did not finish many of them. The only passages do not offend me is those involve no gender. The only thing I learnt was the Yangzhou massacre during Qing dynasty.
DNF。前言开始就觉不妙,读了四篇,果然……呃呃呃。写作风格我觉得非常稚嫩,对文本的理解尚停留在一种表层的情思上(此处类比下陈春成)。这往往伴随着内在的匮乏,四个故事也确实各有各的浅薄,第一篇是卡尔维诺的高中生水平仿写。第二篇开头不错,结果做成了一碗“女主因为突然爱上一个男人决定从头做自己”的鸡汤(典型compulsory sexuality,展现一个女人要过属于自己的人生了先让她恋爱开窍)。第三篇说商业化数据监控,主题常见,展开的方式是大段说教的对话,剧情更是幼稚到可笑。title story写二代华裔移民的复杂心理,情意有,但浅白且刻意,最后升华靠妈妈写信,我以为在看24h……同样的主题,论深度和笔力,Ling Ma刻画得好太多了。总结就是,我有这个时间我为什么不去读勒古恩啊。
当年考SAT时的长篇阅读the paper menagerie,十多年后依旧念念不忘,重读还是会落泪……
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