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Pros & Cons
Pros
The first story, “the bookmaking habits of select species,” is a series of vignettes describing how various alien species craft books. The author concludes the chapter with the “everyone makes books.
All the flavors” speculates about how guan yu, the chinese god of war, might have adapted to life in 19th-century idaho. Asians have become an envied ethnicity in the us. Most of the stories have asian main characters either chinese or japanese set in... Read More
The literomancer’ is a story that is set in taiwan. Kan extends a magical world and an odd sense of belonging to lilly dyer, a texan transplant.
Cons
If you want detailed descriptions of gruesome *, war atrocities against women, this is the book for you. Not for everyone.
Highlights
Quality
Truly innovative with beautiful tone and flow
There is such a wealth of unique and innovative world building
If the object is destroyed you die a real difficulty for a woman who’s born with ice cubes housing her soul
Not many books can make me cry but they were falling free on the last two pages of this story
Price
I felt like i got much more than i paid for reading this book
I dont love all the stories in this book but the title story is worth the price
He succeeds and becomes a hero to the others—but not without cost
Shipping
The pilgrims have been passed by in their journey by ever faster ships that have reached the planet ahead of them
The british arrive in hong kong and they build a railroad
Unexpectedly the ship receives a message from earth that changes everything
Competitiveness
The bookmaking habits of select species was a great opener and very similar to invisible cities by italo calvino which i love
The historian husband is the lead member of the team and he decides that rather than allow scholars and scientists to use the t... Read More
However it was more original than “the perfect match” a dystopian about a future where one corporation guides your every desire... Read More
Indeed chiang sometimes looms larger over the paper menagerie as stories like 34state change34 feel like lius effort to explore... Read More
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- This product had a total of 2,285 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 5 2024.
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Liu has a somewhat scary mind
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I had to take a day or two off of reading this book to digest the information
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He has propelled me to work harder in my studio a very productive 2 weeks
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The book cover material disgraces this masterpiece
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I find that i dont enjoy lius straight science fiction as much probably because his scifi veers towards a dryer hardscience style and i dont really have much a feel for his aliens
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The more specfic mash ups are pretty good but its his asian fantasy that really comes alive
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Even in good hunting and the waves theres an unsettling sense of change whether its because the magic is leaving the land or that science is changing humanity
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The stories in this collection are mostly hardhitting
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