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The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu ISBN 148142436X
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Ken Liu ISBN 148142436X
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This book by Ken Liu has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-07-27 and the most recent from 2025-04-17. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to…
“Kenneth Leu ... has the paper managerie ... blends or alternates in a sense between sci-fi and fantasy in this really compelling way. highly highly recommend.”— Tim Ferriss
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“ken liu the paper menagerie which was gifted to me by matt mullenweg really accomplished tech founder ceo of a company called automatic”— Tim Ferriss
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