#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!

[bubblesandpages]

Something about Caspian becoming less human the more he's forced to feel isolated from other people, something about Maddie only being able to grow and let go when she reconnects with those who've left her and the people still with her, something about the only thing stabilizing UI's being their love for other people

[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.

[portabella201]

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

[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

[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

[bubblesandpages]

Laurie Lowell I will always love you.

[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!