The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wish list failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $29.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Corey Brill
-
Joy Osmanski
-
Written by:
-
Ken Liu
About this listen
Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many 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 win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).
Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.
You may also enjoy...
-
Black Sun Volume 1
- Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall92
-
Performance77
-
Story78
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian...
-
-
Can’t wait for the next instalment
- By Anonymous on 2021-01-25
Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
-
The Memory Police
- A Novel
- Written by: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall49
-
Performance38
-
Story37
*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The...
-
-
Dystopian? Possibly
- By Sandi on 2020-03-19
Written by: Yoko Ogawa, and others
-
Of Blood and Fire
- The Bound and the Broken, Book 1
- Written by: Ryan Cahill
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall31
-
Performance21
-
Story21
Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North. In the remote villages of Southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving - a test of courage and skill that not all survive. But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war.
-
-
Simple Y.A
- By Josh Tucker on 2023-05-16
Written by: Ryan Cahill
-
The Bone Ships
- Written by: RJ Barker
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall31
-
Performance24
-
Story24
A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to...
-
-
A good tale though some aspects got tiresome
- By J Brandon. on 2024-02-15
Written by: RJ Barker
-
The Prefect
- Written by: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall68
-
Performance59
-
Story58
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multifaceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that left 900 people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus.
-
-
The Prefect is superb!
- By Christian G. Cameron on 2023-01-03
Written by: Alastair Reynolds
-
Revenger
- Written by: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall53
-
Performance46
-
Story46
Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . . and of vengeance. . . Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest crew members of the legendary Captain Rackamore's ship, using their mysterious powers as Bone...
-
-
Good story and imagery, audio issues
- By Luc on 2019-11-21
Written by: Alastair Reynolds
-
Black Sun Volume 1
- Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall92
-
Performance77
-
Story78
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian...
-
-
Can’t wait for the next instalment
- By Anonymous on 2021-01-25
Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse
-
The Memory Police
- A Novel
- Written by: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall49
-
Performance38
-
Story37
*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The...
-
-
Dystopian? Possibly
- By Sandi on 2020-03-19
Written by: Yoko Ogawa, and others
-
Of Blood and Fire
- The Bound and the Broken, Book 1
- Written by: Ryan Cahill
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall31
-
Performance21
-
Story21
Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North. In the remote villages of Southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving - a test of courage and skill that not all survive. But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war.
-
-
Simple Y.A
- By Josh Tucker on 2023-05-16
Written by: Ryan Cahill
-
The Bone Ships
- Written by: RJ Barker
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall31
-
Performance24
-
Story24
A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to...
-
-
A good tale though some aspects got tiresome
- By J Brandon. on 2024-02-15
Written by: RJ Barker
-
The Prefect
- Written by: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall68
-
Performance59
-
Story58
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multifaceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that left 900 people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus.
-
-
The Prefect is superb!
- By Christian G. Cameron on 2023-01-03
Written by: Alastair Reynolds
-
Revenger
- Written by: Alastair Reynolds
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall53
-
Performance46
-
Story46
Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . . and of vengeance. . . Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest crew members of the legendary Captain Rackamore's ship, using their mysterious powers as Bone...
-
-
Good story and imagery, audio issues
- By Luc on 2019-11-21
Written by: Alastair Reynolds
-
Clockwork Boys
- Clocktaur War, Book 1
- Written by: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall44
-
Performance39
-
Story39
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager's city.
-
-
Amazing!!!
- By Linnaea Murray on 2023-06-01
Written by: T. Kingfisher
-
Empire of Silence
- Sun Eater, Book 1
- Written by: Christopher Ruocchio
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 26 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall201
-
Performance158
-
Story158
The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world.
-
-
Author's first book is amazing.
- By blorgus on 2023-07-06
Written by: Christopher Ruocchio
-
All the Seas of the World
- Written by: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall68
-
Performance60
-
Story60
Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature ‘quarter turn to the fantastic’ to tell a story of vengeance, power, and love. On a dark...
-
-
Too much introspection
- By Xena on 2023-10-25
Written by: Guy Gavriel Kay
-
Cage of Souls
- Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall27
-
Performance22
-
Story22
The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor.
-
-
Unusual story.
- By Candace on 2023-02-17
Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
-
All Systems Red
- Written by: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall685
-
Performance562
-
Story560
All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.
-
-
NOTE This book is only 3 hours long!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-12-03
Written by: Martha Wells
-
Exhalation
- Stories
- Written by: Ted Chiang
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall200
-
Performance170
-
Story170
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest...
-
-
Delightful collection of thought-provoking stories
- By Hmmmm on 2020-02-03
Written by: Ted Chiang
What the critics say
The narration felt dry at a few places, but some of the stories were incredible.
A new style of writing
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great book - content warning for torture and rape
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
fantastic read
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant writing but not for the faint of heart
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.