#ken liu

[aseaofquotes]

Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

[charliejaneanders]

The new episode of Our Opinions Are Correct is about amazing libraries in science fiction and fantasy. We also talk about real-life libraries, which are under threat from would-be censors. Plus we talk to author Ken Liu about his new translation of the Dao De Jing!

[physicalhazards]

“Vicious” “Viscous”, My Speculative Fiction MidTerm based on Ken Liu’s “Good Hunting”

rahh I’m so proud of this piece! i did an analysis explaining this piece as well for the class that I didn’t include but yea! im super proud of how it turned out and all the work i put into it. It’s a commentary on bodily autonomy. Included the sketches and up-close shots under the cut.

[power-chords]

I read a fantastic short story yesterday by Ken Liu called "Good Hunting," about folklore, machines, colonialism, misogyny, and finding camaraderie in survival. Enjoy.

[mykingdomforapen]

I love this art of Cheng Xiaoshi so, so dearly because it's adorable and I love stuffies and I love CXS but also because it reminds me of this short story: "Goodnight, Melancholy" by Xia Jia (English translation by Ken Liu)

cw: deals very intimately with deep depression, including references to suicide, but is ultimately a story that is about beginning to heal. Also, it's a story about robots, souls, and learning to be kind to yourself as you would a child.

[quotent-potables]

The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture's patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language's rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people's gestures and movements.

— Ken Liu, translator's postscript to The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin

[portabella201]

I have no one to talk to about Cogo Yelu from the Dandelion Dynasty and it’s physically hurting me. He’s perfect

[reverie-quotes]

There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.

— Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

[mrsfaulkner]

620 pages, almost as many characters to keep track of and an intricate geopolitical plot. Obvious parallels to GOT - and I really liked this!

Politics made fun 👌

[riceballannie]

Cried my eyes out while reading Ken Liu's #thepapermenagerie for my university's book cover project. I combined traditional inking, graphite pencils and digital colouring :3

[thelastofthebookworms]

When the other polls will be out, they'll be in my 'fantasy polls' tag.

[theinquisitxor]

Author Ken Liu is visiting my university in the spring, so naturally we bought all the books he’s written and translated for the library!

[shortstorytournament]

Short Story Tournament

THE PAPER MENAGERIE by Ken Liu (2011) (link) - tw: racism, death

A little paper tiger stood on the table, the size of two fists placed together. The skin of the tiger was the pattern on the wrapping paper, white background with red candy canes and green Christmas trees.

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1887) (link) - tw: depression, insanity

John is so pleased to see me improve! He laughed a little the other day, and said I seem to be flourishing in spite of my wall-paper. I turned it off with a laugh. I had no intentions of telling him it was because of the wall-paper — he would make fun of me. He might even want to take me away.

[smugfieri]

Can people please please please go watch pantheon season 2. It is criminal how hard AMC fumbled this show. It was written based off of author Ken Liu who wrote a collection of short stories the show pulls from. Amazing sci fi writer who has a briliant and criminally underrated animated rendition of their work. Give it some love 🙏