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Tag: Ken Liu

  • Hugo Awards: Best Novella (6th contender)

    Last in the novella category is Ken Liu’s “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” from Panverse Three. Read it here. This story deals with Japanese atrocities against the occupied Chinese, specifically a region where the Japanese built a complex in which to perform medical experiments on Chinese civilians. Thousands endured hideous tortures and died;…

  • Hugo Awards: Best Short Story Contenders (4)

    Fourth on the ballot for Best Short Story: “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu. You can read it here. Jack is the son of an American father and a Chinese mother, who was a mail-order bride. The marriage is a successful one, but at age 10 Jack becomes aware of the ethnic differences between himself…