Ken Liu is one of his generation's most original, thought-provoking, and award-winning short-story writers. This is his first collection of stories, sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, profound, beguiling, and heartbreaking in equal measure. The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Award finalist), 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 Paper Menagerie ( (the only story ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).