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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
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☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
Quite a lot of heavily conflicted characters.

Culture - do you love your own or do you readily embrace the strange one? Be it Ancient China or a mesh of space genetics...

This actually could be on par with Bradbury if only the weaker essays were taken out: the politics-based one, the VR one, the algorithmic bullying one... Seriously, it's all so very childish.

Excellent stories:
The 'Ghost Days', a story about Ona, the half-alien girl, about bubis and else. A lot of else.
'The Reborn' - wowser. Uni
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gam s (Haveyouread.bkk)
★★★★ สี่ดาวเต็มไม่หัก

ต้องรีบอ่านภายในหนึ่งสัปดาห์เพราะอยากไปคุยบุ๊คคลับกับเพื่อนวันเสาร์นี้ แต่ไม่รู้สึกฝืนใจเลยเพราะส่วนใหญ่ก็เออ เหตุผลกำปั้นทุบดินคือเรื่องมันสนุก แต่ไม่ได้สนุกเปล่าๆ มันมีอะไรซ่อนอยู่ในนั้น มีอะไรให้ขบคิดไปด้วยกันเยอะมากๆ สะท้อนได้หลายแง่มุมหลากมิติของชีวิต ถ้าชอบอ่านนิยายการเมืองล่ะก็ หนังสือไซไฟคือคำตอบ เพราะไซไฟเป็นเรื่องของการวิพากษ์สังคมและการเมืองจริงๆ เราเลยวกกลับมาอ่านไซไฟแฟนตาซีทุกครั้งที่มีโอกาส

เรารู้จัก เคน หลิวครั้งแรกเพราะเขาเป็นคนแปล The Three-Body Problem ของห
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Joanna
An excellent collection of short stories. I first encountered Liu as the translator for the fascinating The Three-Body Problem (and the next two of that trilogy). Then, I read the first of Liu's Dandelion Dynasty books (The Grace of Kings). But Liu truly shines as a short story writer.

His stories are bursting with ideas, and with heart. I wish there had been an author's note about each of the stories. I've seen that in a few collections recently and this book could really benefit from just a few
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