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I chose this because I needed an award-winning short story or collection for a challenge, and there are plenty of science fiction award-winners here. I enjoyed the collection overall, and I appreciated the way Liu interweaves Chinese (and Japanese) culture with the mainly American sci fi tradition. Warning: there is some horrible violence in some of the stories. I'd have liked to rearrange them, as I much preferred the first two-thirds of the book to the last third, but we can't have everything
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I thought this was sweet and sad. It also lead to quite an interesting discussion about why this is fantasy and how fantasy and magic realism and fantasy relate to each other. I'm started it was such an award winner though. It would be fun and easy to teach, which won it a an extra star.
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